He was first followed by the attacker, then hit with a crutch that knocked him to the ground and finally massacred with his bare hands to death .

Thus died Alika Ogorchukwu , the 39-year-old Nigerian peddler attacked and killed yesterday afternoon in the center of Civitanova Marche , along Corso Umberto I, by Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo , the 32-year-old Italian arrested by the police for voluntary murder and robbery. The crutch belonged to the victim, who was hit last year while on a bike.

Meanwhile, while the 32-year-old, through his lawyers, spread a message to apologize to the victim's family , the investigations continue.

"Witnesses will be heard and camera images viewed to clarify the dynamics of the beating," the investigators said at a press conference. However, they exclude both the alleged appreciation of a woman by the victim and the motive for racial hatred by the aggressor: "The investigations are underway, but the situation is quite clear - said the manager of the Macerata Mobile Squad. Matteo Luconi and Fabio Mazza from the police station of the Ps of Civitanova Marche - everything seems to have arisen from a quarrel for futile reasons, with an abnormal reaction on the part of the attacker towards the victim who was begging him for alms ".

Several people witnessed the beating without intervening or filming the scene with their cell phones. Also for this reason this morning the Nigerian community and not only demonstrated blocking a corner of the street that leads to the square showing a photo of the dead man and also one of the shots of the very violent attack. Alika's wife Charity Oriachi was also among the protesters.

The victim lived with his wife and a child in San Severino Marche. He was a peddler of handkerchiefs and small accessories that he sold on the street, at the exit of the shops, .