The Tuscan city of Pisa will
confer a lifetime pension of 2,000 euros a month to the widow
and three children of a Bangladeshi waiter who was beaten to
death on his way home from work in April this year, sources said
Wednesday.
Zakir Hossain, 34, was violently punched for no apparent
reason by a 26-year-old Tunisian national after leaving the
Indian restaurant where he worked as a waiter around 1 a.m. on
the night between April 13 and 14.
Police released CCTV footage of the fatal attack, in which
Hossain was hassled by a group of four men and then assaulted by
one of them.
The four suspects fled the scene aboard a car, and later
attempted to attack two more people in two different central
Pisa locations, police said.
They have since been identified as Tunisian national
Hamrouni Hamza, 27, who threw the fatal punch and stands accused
of voluntary manslaughter.
He flew out of Milan's Malpensa airport two days after the
attack, and remains a fugitive in his native Tunisia.
Italian national Simone Tabbita, 22, and a 16-year-old
Tunisian who is a relative of Hamza were charged with
aiding and abetting the elder Hamza.
Another 20-year-old who was part of the group was not
charged because he did not participate in the assault and did
not intervene to free Hamza when witnesses tried to stop the
attack on Hossain.
Hamza's punch sent Hossain into a 36-hour coma from which
he never recovered, and after his death shops lowered their
shutters or turned off their lights in signs of mourning as some
1,000 people marched through downtown Pisa in memory of
Hossain.
The march was led by Pisa Mayor Marco Filippeschi,
Bangladeshi Ambassador Shahdat Hossain, and the mayor of the
town of Cascina, where the four attackers lived.
Meanwhile, the Pisa section of the National Workmen's Comp
Institute (INAIL) has classified Hossain's death as a
work-related injury because it happened on his way home from
work, awarding his widow and children the lifetime pension.
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