Partner of slain Nigerian gets refugee (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, July 7 - The 24-year-old partner of a 36-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker beaten to death by a soccer ultra on Thursday got refugee status, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said. "The competent commission has granted to the partner of the migrant killed in Fermo the status of refugee," Alfano said. The woman, Chinyery Namdi, took an exam to get such status in May, he recalled. Alfano earlier condemned racism in the wake of the incident in the Marche town of Fermo Tuesday.
    Police on Thursday detained Fermana ultra Amedeo Mancini in connection with the beating death of Emmanuel Chidi Namdi on July 5. Investigators said Namdi was defending his wife from racial insults by Mancini. The ultra reportedly called the woman an "African monkey", sparking a row after which Mancini battered Namdi to death with a torn-out street-sign pole.