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Saturday, 23 July 2016

Italian court jails 3 members of a Nigerian crime gang for attempted murder, armed robbery and drug-dealing

An Italian court yesterday, July 22, sentenced three members of a Nigerian crime gang in Palermo, Sicily, to prison for various crimes including attempted murder. Prosecutors said the three Nigerians brought to Palermo the practices of the "Black Axe" cult, which Nigerian police said carried out ritual murders, mutilation and rape in the early 1990s.
In Sicily, they used mafia techniques in carrying out attempted murder, armed robbery, bodily harm, prostitution, extortion and drug-dealing, and answered to Italy's most storied mafia organisation, the Cosa Nostra, as if they were its subjects, prosecutors said. State prosecutors in Palermo say the mafia brings in drugs and the Nigerians distribute the among both Italian and African clients.

The court's verdict, reached on Wednesday, July 20 and made available on Friday, handed down sentences of 12 years and four months to the gang's boss and just over 10 years each to two others.

The group is believed to have attacked two people with bottles and axes late one night in January 2014 in Palermo's Ballaro street market, where police later found the victims with gashed foreheads.

The Black Axe was among several secret societies that took hold in Nigerian universities in the 1990s, allegedly attacking people on campus with guns and knives, raping women who refused to pay protection money and engaging in blood-drinking rituals.

Prostitution is thought to be one of the most profitable businesses for the Nigerian gangs.

According to police data, 90% of prostitutes in Palermo come from Nigeria.


Source: Reuters

15 comments:

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Dey asked for it


...merited happiness

LIB REP (中华人民共和国) said...

They do the same shit everywhere....let em keep painting the name of the country black and red

Unknown said...

Serves dem right. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Will they ever stop tarnishing Nigeria's almost ruined image!!!

Unknown said...

9ja una 2 lik crime na wah oh

Unknown said...

Naija's name and evil deeds report always 90% of prostitutes from naija, introduction of black axe cult naija to me those sentenced didn't get any harsh punishment 25yrs should have been OK

Unknown said...

Na wa o let dem face the muzik

Unknown said...

Okk

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm....Na wa o. D guys are big disgrace. They carried black axe and axeland etc to Italy. Pls jail dem for 50 yrs. 10yrs too small.

Unknown said...

Very good. Evil doesn't pay

Genny's Blog said...

Good for them.that's just their handiwork.





says, Genevieve.

Unknown said...

And when PMB said some time ago that some Nigerians living abroad are criminals and that they bring disgrace to d country, many could not agree then and created d stupid hastag say na lie..mitsheew!

Unknown said...

crazy

Unknown said...

Where is ben bruce the twitter senator,Buhari's word of Nigerians criminality. Abroad is now justified,imagine 90 percent of ashewo from a district all. From nigeria

Citizen of the Creeks said...

What else do u expect from Axe Men, dirty stinking HLs. Riff-raffs with razz orientation.

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