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Italian rapper Fedez accused of inciting racial hatred for lyrics targeting Jannik Sinner

Fedez faces legal action after lyrics comparing tennis star Jannik Sinner's German-speaking accent to Adolf Hitler sparked public outrage in Italy's South Tyrol region.

  • Italian rapper Fedez has been accused of inciting racial hatred by comparing Jannik Sinner's accent to Adolf Hitler's in his lyrics.
  • Jannik Sinner has become Italy's most popular athlete after winning four Grand Slam titles, surpassing soccer stars.
  • Giuseppe Martucci stated that Fedez's reference to Hitler was unacceptable and emphasized the importance of constitutional values.
  • Fans have strongly defended Sinner, praising him as a champion who speaks three languages fluently.
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Forum of Assago, the singer after having appealed to the tennis player an Italian puppet with Hitler's accent: "A mistake, I take responsibility for it. I wanted to talk about who was born here but is not considered Italian"

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The Italian singer Fedez will have to explain before the courts his controversial phrase about Jannik Sinner, who he defined as "an Italian bloodsucker with accent of Adolf Hitler" in what aims to be the lyrics of a new song, after Giuseppe Martucci, councillor of the town of Bolzano, has filed a complaint against him for "incitement to hatred"."I felt the duty to act in defense of the fundamental values of our Constitution.

·Madrid, Spain
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A city councilman FdI of Bolzano denounces the call of the rapper to the "pure Italian blood" and the approach of the tennis player to Hitler: "A language that evokes racism and hatred"

·Italy
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Italian rapper Fedez accused of inciting racial hatred for lyrics targeting Jannik Sinner

Italian rapper Fedez has been accused of inciting racial hatred for publishing musical lyrics saying that top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner speaks with “Adolf Hitler’s accent.”

·United States
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The singer Fedez, one of the most famous and heard in Italy, unveiled on Tuesday a stanza of what aims to be a new song in which he charges against tennis player Jannik Sinner, who qualifies as "an Italian pureblood with the accent of Adolf Hitler".wf_cms.rss.read_more

·Barcelona, Spain
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