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Row Erupts in Italy over Kanye West Concert in Reggio Emilia After UK Ban

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Rapper barred from UK over his past antisemitic and pro-Nazi comments. A controversy has erupted in Italy over a scheduled performance by American rapper Kanye West, known as Ye, at a music festival in Reggio Emilia on 18 July. The Guardian reported. Opposition in Italy In Reggio Emilia, a city awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour for its role in the Italian Resistance, local associations and politicians have voiced strong opposition, with…

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Kanye West will be there, and his concert scheduled for July 18th at the RCF Arena in Campovolo has been confirmed, despite appeals from the Reggio Emilia National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI), the unions, and Adelmo Cervi, son of Aldo, one of the seven brothers shot by the Nazis in 1943. "Someone who walks around with swastikas isn't worthy of performing anywhere, not just in Reggio Emilia or London," Cervi told La Repubblica. Contro…

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ANSA broke the news in Italy on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
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