{"id":33987,"date":"2013-02-15T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=33987"},"modified":"2013-02-15T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:12:38","slug":"ivory-coast-man-sets-himself-ablaze-over-deportation-at-rome-airport-video-33987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ivory-coast-man-sets-himself-ablaze-over-deportation-at-rome-airport-video-33987\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast man sets himself ablaze over deportation at Rome airport \/ Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Self-Immolation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33998\" title=\"Self-Immolation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Self-Immolation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Self-Immolation.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Self-Immolation-280x215.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>An Ivorian man about to be deported from Italy has set himself ablaze at the Fiumicino airport in the Italian capital, Rome, according to local reporters in Italy.<\/h1>\n<p>A customs official managed to extinguish the flames, but the young man is believed to be badly burnt which can leave serious scare on him forever.<\/p>\n<p>The airport officials said the man had not passed through security check point and was in the main international departure terminal at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal immigrants especially from Sub-Saharan Africa enter Italy and Europe via the Mediterranean Sea in boats and it is expected the man is not an exception as he might have entered Italy by route.<\/p>\n<p>The man was reportedly hid the fuel in his suitcase which many believed he had a premeditation mind to burn himself in the eventuality of being busted.<\/p>\n<p>The La Repubblica newspaper reported that a police officer noticed the man had covered himself with the liquid and had a light in his hand. He ran towards the man but was unable to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby customs official, Tiziana Garner, told the Corriere della Serra newspaper that she spotted that the officer&#8217;s arm was on fire and helped him remove his top.<\/p>\n<p>She then realised the Ivorian man, believed to be aged 19, was on fire and used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, the paper reports.<\/p>\n<p>The man and the officer have been taken to hospital and the area of the airport where the fire happened has re-opened again after it was temporary closed down.<\/p>\n<h2>Video Ivorian fired himself Rome Airport<\/h2>\n[media id=822 width=610 height=340]\n<p><strong>Issaka Adams \/ NationalTurk Africa News<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ivorian man about to be deported from Italy has set himself ablaze at the Fiumicino airport in the Italian capital, Rome, according to local reporters in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[45924,45925,45928,38656,45927,45922,45923,2059,45926,45921,45919,45920,1068],"class_list":["post-33987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-fiumicino-airport","tag-fiumicino-airport-rome","tag-illegal-immigrants-italy","tag-italian-capital-rome","tag-italy-custom","tag-ivorian-man-deported-from-italy","tag-ivorian-set-himself-ablaze","tag-ivory-coast","tag-ivory-coast-man-ablaze-himself","tag-ivory-coast-man-himself-ablaze","tag-ivory-coast-man-sets-himself-deportation","tag-rome-airport","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}