Twelve Nigerian and Ghanaian migrants were
thrown overboard following a fight concerning
their Christian religion, Italian police said
yesterday. The police said 15 African Muslim
migrants have arrested over the incident. .
The victims were “of Christian faith, compared to
their attackers who were of Muslim faith,” police
said in a statement, saying the 15 people
arrested were accused of “multiple aggravated
murders motivated by religious hate”.
The incident aboard the rubber dinghy, which
was carrying about 100 migrants, took place in
the Strait of Sicily, between Tunisia and Italy.
According to a group of Nigerian and Ghanaian
survivors, a fight broke out over religion, with a
group of Muslim passengers threatening the
Nigerians and Ghanaians after the latter – who
were in the minority – declared themselves to be
Christians.
“The threats then materialised and 12 people, all
Nigerian and Ghanaian, are believed to have
drowned in the Mediterranean,” the statement
added.
The 15 migrants arrested over the attack on their
arrival in Palermo were from Ivory Coast, Mali and
Senegal.
In a separate migrant tragedy, as many as 41
migrants were feared drowned after refugee boat
sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media reported.
Four survivors reported the incident to Italian
police and humanitarian organizations.
The four survivors said they were originally from
Sub-Saharan Africa and had left the city of Tripoli
in Libya on Saturday. They then stayed adrift for
four days before their boat was wrecked, the IOM
spokesman said in a statement.
“It appears that the four were found floating in
the sea by a helicopter and were then rescued by
the military ship Foscari,” the IOM said.

It is a shame!

Why all this hatred and discrimination??