Sad! Hundreds Mourn Nigerian Man Murdered in Italy Racist Attack (Photos)

Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi and his wife Chinyere 

Hundreds of people turned out on Sunday to mourn the killing of Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, 36, at his funeral.

The man was brutally murdered by a White racist farmer, Amedeo Mancini during a fight in the town on Tuesday which broke out after Mancini called Nnamdi’s wife Chinyere an “African monkey”.

According to AFP, Nnamdi, died in hospital after the attack. “He came to live in peace, he found death”, read one of the many messages left with flowers for Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, whose widow, dressed in all white, sat near his rose-topped coffin in the cathedral of Fermo in central Italy.

The funeral was attended by parliamentary relations minister Maria Elena Boschi and the president of the lower house of parliament, Laura Boldrini.

The couple had been housed in a shelter run by Catholic organization Caritas after they fled Nigeria last year after an attack on a church by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in which their two-year-old son and other members of their families were killed.