{"id":114316,"date":"2024-09-18T22:31:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=114316"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:31:57","slug":"notorious-nigerian-trafficker-commits-suicide-in-italian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/notorious-nigerian-trafficker-commits-suicide-in-italian-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Nigerian trafficker commits suicide in Italian prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1810570270300306101\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A notorious Nigerian human trafficker, John Ogais \u201cRambo\u201d accused of torturing and killing migrants has committed suicide in an Italian prison.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAccording to local media, Ogais took his life after attacking and injuring four prison wardens on Sept. 16, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ogais was arrested in 2017 on charges of belonging to a gang that trafficked migrants from Libya to Italy and tortured, r@ped and murdered them.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Ogais at the sprawling Cara \u2018Santa\u2019Anna\u2019 shelter in the coastal town of Isola Capo Rizzuto in Calabria after he was identified by migrants who arrived on Italy\u2019s southern Lampedusa Island.<\/p>\n<p>Several migrants told police they were told at the camp where they were held in Libya that Ogais who called himself \u2018Rambo\u2019 had beaten two Nigerian migrants to death<\/p>\n<p>One of the migrants, a minor, was killed in front of his brother, who was forced to watch the murder while Ogais threatened him with a loaded pistol, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that my cousin and others tried to escape and that they were caught and subsequently died from the torture meted out to them,\u201d one of the migrants on Lampedusa was quoted as telling police.<\/p>\n<p>Ogais and other traffickers tortured migrants in \u201ccountless\u201d ways including with electric shocks and beatings on various parts of their bodies with rubber tubes.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notorious Nigerian human trafficker, John Ogais \u201cRambo\u201d accused of torturing and killing migrants has committed suicide in an Italian prison. 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