Crowd does nothing as Nigerian man beaten to death in Italy

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People in an Italian seaside town stood by and did nothing as a Nigerian man was killed in broad daylight on a busy street last week. Some are horrified but the beating death also highlights an attitude toward migrants in Italy. John Last reports this isn’t the first such attack in a country where anti-immigrant sentiments are growing.

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