A 25-year-old Nigerian man identified as Prince Jerry killed himself in Italy after authorities denied him a residence permit.

Jerry's funeral was held Friday morning, at the Chiesa dell'Annunziata in Genoa. Prince Jerry was a chemistry graduate and was continuing his studies at a University having arrived from Libya on a boat two and a half years ago.

In mid-January his appeal to stay in the country was rejected and he “fell into a deep depression”, according to sources close to Jerry, who was staying in Tortona in Piedmont at the time of his death. Italian authorities have been denying residence permits in their hundreds and have started removing migrants from centres as the government’s hardline immigration measures kick in.

Approved in December, the Salvini decree – named after Matteo Salvini, the interior minister and leader of the far-right League – abolishes humanitarian protection for those not eligible for refugee status.

“After discovering he couldn’t even count on the humanitarian permission that was cancelled by the recent decree, one of our boys took his own life,” said Fr Giacomo Di Martino of the charity Migrantes.

Fr Alex Zanotelli, a member of the Comboni missionaries in Verona, described Jerry’s death as “a state murder, the bitter fruit of the Salvini decree, which besides insecurity produces deaths”.

“Many of the migrants and refugees we treat in our projects have already passed through traumatic experiences in their journey, in many cases with episodes of violence and torture in Libya,” Lilian Pizzi, a psychologist with Médecins Sans Frontières in Rome, told the Guardian.

“When they arrive in Europe they are often retraumatised by arbitrary policies that reduce their rights and by an atmosphere of hate and racism amplified by the media. And all this exacerbates a sense of powerlessness and exclusion.”

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RIP

It's sad. Nationalism has never helped anyone. Even animals mutate when their current location is no longer favorable and the host animals don't evict them. How much more humans

But still e no reach to kill yourself now. If he could rewind I'm sure he wouldn't do it.

It's possible to blow legit in Nigeria.

I blame you for doing dis to yourself

I just wonder how people just decide to end their lives at will, when there is food to be eaten ( however sparse), comedy to be watched,glorious alcohol to be consumed,playful fights to be engaged in with my siblings and beautiful memories to be captured on my cheap android phone.

I can never understand why...

Ndo.

The internet has made everything easy, you don't need to do this. Check my signature.

His life long dream of staying in Europe has been fulfilled in death.



I no go die before fulfilling my dreams. Ase!

Can I use his body parts pls
I need a Benz

so dis guy no go bleep white punna again.. choi

rIP to him

Wasted sperm

Fuc

sad.
Nothing is worth your happiness.
No matter the situation BE HAPPY

He didn’t wanna come back to Nigeria, he prefer to die than come back here.
Buhari is a mistake

Exwizard:
You are in italy and you are still very depressed and frustrated, what should we here in Nigeria do, that all we wake up to hear everyday is either Atiku or Buhari name. No hope for the suffering here for now. Yet we didn't commit suicide

Village people @work

Atleast he was buried honorably in Italy.

catwalq:
I just wonder how people just decide to end their lives at will, when there is food to be eaten ( however sparse), comedy to be watched,glorious alcohol to be consumed,playful fights to be engaged in with my siblings and beautiful memories to be captured on my cheap android phone.

I can never understand why...

You forgot Good sex too... Are you available?

michlins:
It's sad. Nationalism has never helped anyone.

Migrate, not mutate.

catwalq:
I just wonder how people just decide to end their lives at will, when there is food to be eaten ( however sparse), comedy to be watched,glorious alcohol to be consumed,playful fights to be engaged in with my siblings and beautiful memories to be captured on my cheap android phone.

I can never understand why...

In wonder o, not to mention gbenshing

No matter your situation as long as there is life there is hope. Don't let no man, government bring u down!!

Must he live in Italy? May God console his parents.

If dumbohari had been a good and effective leader, this handsome young Nigerian wouldn't have suffer the perilous deserts and stormy seas enroute to Europe where we lost all hope and took his own life.

Dumbohari should be held accountable for all these deaths, if you think he is not culpable hen has business being in Aso rock if he can't fix the fundamentals of basic human life. To hell with dumbohari

See crowd and authorities conducting his burial
Why can't same authority help him when he was alive?

catwalq:
I just wonder how people just decide to end their lives at will, when there is food to be eaten ( however sparse), comedy to be watched,glorious alcohol to be consumed,playful fights to be engaged in with my siblings and beautiful memories to be captured on my cheap android phone.

I can never understand why...

you will make a good spouse..cos you won't allow hubby to be ever depressed

Does he deserved this kind of burial at all? Coward! Coward!! Coward!!!>>>..poor mind.Now that is dead devil will not deny him hell residential permanet permit..

emilyone:

In wonder o, not to mention gbenshing

Hahahahahahahaha. I have no idea what you're talking about mbok.

what?

They supposed to let his body rotten for vulture to eat

catwalq:
I just wonder how people just decide to end their lives at will, when there is food to be eaten ( however sparse), comedy to be watched,glorious alcohol to be consumed,playful fights to be engaged in with my siblings and beautiful memories to be captured on my cheap android phone.

I can never understand why...

I can't just understand too