The dismay, the indignation - and even the controversies - for the brutal beating in Civitanova Marche (Macerata), which cost the life of Alika Ogorchukwu, a 39-year-old Nigerian street vendor, do not subside .

Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo , the 32-year-old worker from Campania arrested on suspicion of murder, will be heard by the investigating judge in these hours. The man, through his lawyers, apologized to the victim's family , while the same lawyers are speculating to ask for a psychiatric report .

In fact, the man has been suffering from psychological problems for some time and, entrusted to his mother, he would have been followed in the past by therapists. Many therefore wonder if the man was adequately monitored, being a character considered "at risk".

And if the 39-year-old's family also asks it, who through the lawyer Francesco Mantella reiterates: "Ferlazzo's apologies are not enough , now we only need justice and not revenge. It is difficult to understand what happened". And again: “If there is a psychiatric implication that is inserted in the causes of Alika's murder, it is necessary to reflect: if Ferlazzo had a support administrator, it seems it was his mother, why was he not supervised? We will have to start a series of checks ".

But it is also controversial for the non-intervention of the people who witnessed the beating , without lifting a finger to stop the fury of the 32-year-old. A fury that lasted, according to the first reconstructions, 4 very long minutes , during which Ferlazzo would have beaten Ogorchukwu with the crutch that the 39-year-old used to move after an accident, and then "finish" him with his bare hands.

Statements of who was there appeared in several newspapers. Beginning with those of the girl who accompanied the 32-year-old: “She told me: let's go now, I hit someone” , the first words Ferlazzo would have said to her after the attack.

"I was motionless, petrified with fear", explained, instead, the 28-year-old Moldovan girl who resumed the beating with her smartphone , in the now unfortunately famous video that went viral on social media and acquired by investigators together with images from video surveillance cameras present in the area.

And MM, another witness, also spoke: “Suffice it to say that no one intervened. I was there when that tough guy attacked the peddler. No indifference: I told him 'stop it or kill it' . Then I called the police and had him arrested ”.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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