Migrant dies after ultra attack (2)

(ANSA) - Fermo, July 6 - A 36-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker died Wednesday after being left in an irreversible coma after being attacked with a ripped-out road-sign pole by a soccer ultra after defending his partner in the Marche coastal town of Fermo.
    The asylum seeker, Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, was beaten by a 35-year-old ultra of local soccer club Fermana who had first insulted Namdi's wife Chinyery, 24, calling her an "African monkey", police said after arresting the so-called fan.
    The couple had been at the Fermo bishop's seminary since September after fleeing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria. A local priest, Father Vinicio Albanesi, said the attack was probably linked to four bombs recently planted outside Fermo churches that have worked with migrants.
    The bombs, which caused little damage and hurt no one, were left outside the churches including the Duomo between February and May.
    All the churches were run by priests who are socially active in helping migrants, drug addicts and the homeless and marginalised.
    A waiting process before using the migrant's organs has been started. But Father Albanesi said there were legal problems since the woman he defended from the two attackers is his live-in companion but there is no proof they are married. "So it isn't clear who can give authorisation (for the transplants)," the priest said.