A linchó crowd and a woman set fire in western Nigeria fire, In the state of Niger, after being accused of making blasphemous comments on Islam, they confirmed the Police and Amnesty International (AI).
As the police reported in a statement and collected local media late on Sunday, the events occurred last Saturday at 2:00 p.m. local time (13.00 GMT) in the village of Kasuwan-Garba, in the town of Mariga.
The victim was called Amaye and It was a street vendor of food to which the residents of the area knew well.
Amaye, who professed Islam as witnesses said, was having a conversation with a young man when “he allegedly made statements considered offensive to Islamic faith.”
These comments that “rapidly caused the anger of the members of the community,” the security forces detailed.
After the woman was interrogated and delivered to the authorities to carry out investigations, an enraged crowd dominated the agents, asking for their immediate execution.
“Unfortunately, this resulted in a massive attack And the woman was burned alive before the reinforcements of the security teams could reach the place, “police explained.
Amnesty International (AI) condemned the facts in another statement and stressed that the “Nigerian authorities must investigate immediately and transparently” the murder of Amanye and “the alleged perpetrators must be arrested and taken before justice.”
The lynchings against people accused of blaspheming or other crimes, such as robbery or witchcraft, have happened relatively frequently in Nigeria and have caused hundreds of dead in recent years.
The murders happen especially in the north of the country, of a Muslim majority, and are often backed by clergymen that encourage the population to take justice by their own hands.
One of the best known cases occurred in 2022, when Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a young education student in the state of Sokoto (Northwest), was lynching for allegedly sharing comments blasphemous against Islam in the WhatsApp messaging application, which led other students to kill her Pedradas.
