MILAN – The Italian rapper Fedez has apologized for publishing music text and says that tennis player Jannik Sinner speaks with “Adolf Hitler’s accent” that the musician led to be accused of turning on racial hatred.
Fedez recently placed an Instagram story with texts of a new song that said in Italian: “Italian has a new idol named Jannik Sinner. Purebloeded Italian with Adolf Hitler’s accent.”
A municipal councilor in Bolzano-the capital of the German-speaking autonomous province of Alto Adige in Northern Italy where Sinner comes from on Thursday a formal complaint lodged by officers about Fedez’s texts on the basis of an article in the Italian Criminal Code of racial hatred and propaganda.
“I wanted to take a paradox and it came terribly about athletes who were born and raised in Italy, but are often not considered Italian because of the color of their skin and applying it to the best athlete in Italy,” Fedez said during a concert in Milan on Friday, according to the Gazzetta Dello Sport.
“I couldn’t get it done and everything I can do is apologize,” added Fedez. “If something like this is not understood, it was made because of a mistake by the person who wrote it. So I take responsibility.”
The reference to “Pure-Blooded Italian” recalls the Italian fascist propaganda from the 1930s, according to Giuseppe Martucci, the city councilor, who added that the reference to Hitler was unacceptable.
“I felt my duty to act and keep the foundation values of our constitution up,” said Martucci. “We cannot allow language that evokes racism and hates to be normalized by public figures.”
By winning four Grand Slam titles for the past two years, Sinner has surpassed the Italian football stars to become the most popular athlete in the country. He lost the US Open -Final of Carlos Alcaraz this month and lost the number 1 ranking to his Spanish rival.
This is not the first time Sinner has to do with an underlying sentiment that he is not completely Italian.
Before he won his first Grand Slam title and chose not to play Davis Cup for Italy in September 2023 – saying that he had not recovered on time from tournaments in North America – he was widely criticized.
“Caso Nazionale” (National edition), said the front page of Sportweek, the weekly magazine of Gazzetta Dello Sport, in a head with a double meaning.
When Sinner when Sinner won his first Grand Slam title on the Australian Open 2024, he was treated as a national hero on his return home and he met Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Chigi Palace.
Sinner and Meloni posed for photos while they first held the Australian Open Trophy and then the Italian flag together. Sinner then gave Meloni a warm embrace to end the meeting.
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