Nigerian Mafia whistleblower dies suspiciously in prison

Italy’s first-ever member of the Nigerian mob to give testimony of the inner workings of the foreign criminal subculture passed away in Palermo’s Pagliarelli Penitentiary.

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The illness in prison and the hospitalization: 29-year-old who denounced the Nigerian mafia has died.

After the brutal aggression he suffered in 2015, he decided to collaborate, allowing him to identify some members of the Black Ax. Since last July, he was in prison following a police takedown that wiped out the Vikings, Black Ax’s rivals group wiped out. Autopsy arranged


Editorial board
7 October 2019
 
He died in hospital from the effects of a complication related to his diabetes. The 29-year-old Nigerian Emeka Don died yesterday morning at the Civic where he had been escorted and transferred from Pagliarelli prison. His name had already appeared in local newspapers because with his statements he revealed the identity of some members of the Black Ax, the Nigerian mafia that even had a base in Palermo until the police intervened. Last July he ended up behind bars - awaiting trial - on the charge of having been part of the Viking, the rival gang dismantled by the Flying Squad.

Emeka Don had suffered a violent attack a few meters from Porta Sant’Agata, between Corso Tukory and the Ballarò market. After that incident the investigators began to frame a series of information that, crossed with the declarations of the "repentant", allowed in November 2016 to stop sixteen men and a woman in all Italy. Among these there was also the presumed head of the criminal organization rooted throughout the peninsula, called "Head of the zone", the first formal charge of the association.

Last July a second blitz was triggered which led to the arrest of ten people. Among these was also Emeka Don (photo attached), detained from that day at the Pagliarelli prison and waiting to be tried by the Court of Palermo. To dispel any doubts about the death of the 29-year-old Nigerian - as also requested by family members - the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate have ordered the autopsy to be performed in the next few days at the Paolo Giaccone Institute of Legal Medicine, at the Policlinico.