Overview

• Performing at Milan’s Forum di Assago, Fedez said he wanted to depict a paradox about athletes born in Italy not being seen as Italian, admitted the verse failed, and asked Sinner’s forgiveness.
• The controversy stems from a social preview in which he rapped that Sinner is a “purosangue italiano con l’accento di Adolf Hitler,” a line he has now disowned on stage.
• Giuseppe Martucci, a Fratelli d’Italia city councillor in Bolzano, filed a formal complaint with prosecutors under article 604‑bis for alleged propaganda and instigation to racial hatred.
• Südtiroler Volkspartei parliamentarians and other politicians condemned the lyric as offensive, and Germany’s DPA highlighted the backlash and the attention the verse drew across the border.
• Sinner has not commented publicly, and before apologizing Fedez had defended the line on Radio24’s La Zanzara as irony aimed at Italian fan worship rather than a personal attack.