12 Nigerians 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 been 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 Boat,
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 – 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.
SOURCE :
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/12-
nigerians-ghanaians-thrown-into-sea-
for-being-christian/
