Nigerian Man Who Fled Boko Haram Beaten to Death in Hate Attack in Italy

A 36-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker has been beaten to death after stepping in to defend his wife from an apparently racist attack by a Right-wing football fan in a small town in northern Italy.
Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, 36, and his wife, Chinyery, fled to Italy last year after surviving a violent attack on a church in Nigeria by the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, in which members of their family were killed.
The couple was walking through the town of Fermo in the Marche region on Tuesday, when they were reportedly abused by the supporter of a local football club.
Emmanuel Chidi Namdi was walking with his girlfriend in the heart of the small town of Paolo Calcinora on Tuesday, when they had racial abuse heaped on them by a supporter of a local football club.
The report said they were called “monkeys”.
This led to an altercation between him and the football fan, and Namdi who fled Nigeria due to Boko Haram insurgency, was brutally beaten on the head with a steel bar until he became unconscious.
He never regained consciousness and died in the hospital on Wednesday.
Namdi had been living in the area for eight months and was lodged in a shelter run by Catholic charity Caritas.
His girlfriend, 24 had lost her baby after a perilous Mediterranean crossing.