A 36-year-old Nigerian asylum
seeker died Wednesday after being left in an irreversible coma
after being attacked with a ripped-out road-sign pole by a
soccer ultra after defending his partner in the Marche coastal
town of Fermo.
The asylum seeker, Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, was beaten by a
35-year-old ultra of local soccer club Fermana who had first
insulted Namdi's wife Chinyery, 24, calling her an "African
monkey", police said after arresting the so-called fan.
The couple had been at the Fermo bishop's seminary since
September after fleeing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria.
A local priest, Father Vinicio Albanesi, said the attack
was probably linked to four bombs recently planted outside Fermo
churches that have worked with migrants.
The bombs, which caused little damage and hurt no one, were
left outside the churches including the Duomo between February
and May.
All the churches were run by priests who are socially
active in helping migrants, drug addicts and the homeless and
marginalised.
A waiting process before using the migrant's organs has
been started.
But Father Albanesi said there were legal problems since
the woman he defended from the two attackers is his live-in
companion but there is no proof they are married.
"So it isn't clear who can give authorisation (for the
transplants)," the priest said.
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