New Year's Eve at Circus Maximus, the Campidoglio asks Tony Effe to step back

The Campidoglio will ask Tony Effe 'to take a step back and renounce performing in the New Year's Eve concert at the Circus Maximus, which must not be a divisive occasion for the city'. The artist's presence has triggered controversy from various associations in recent days. Yesterday, Differenza Donna defined it 'a wicked choice to organise a concert, where the target audience will be girls and boys, in which a singer like Tony Effe, author of sexist, misogynist and violent lyrics, will be among the protagonists'.

Before the Campidoglio's stance, the Roman rapper had posted a story on social media in which he thanked the City of Rome and said he was honoured to sing at the Circus Maximus 'in my city'. 'I respect and love all women,' Tony Effe wrote, 'and I am sorry that someone still thinks otherwise. Rome I'll see you on New Year's Eve'.

"We welcome the news of Roma Capitale's rejection of Tony Effe's presence at the New Year's Eve concert. Evidently we were good prophets when we called the choice of mayor Gualtieri and councillor Onorato dastardly". FdI councillor Federico Rocca said this. "The municipal administration should avoid paying any penalties that would be borne by the Romans, because it should not be the citizens who pay the price for the inability of this administration, if anything, Gualtieri and Onorato should bear the burden. Of the series: he who errs pays'.

"I publicly invite the RAI to reflect on some rappers improperly involved by Conti in the Sanremo festival. Even the Rome municipality, run by the left, in the face of justified protests over the very violent, sexist and insulting tones of the songs of some characters, such as Tony Effe and others, has decided to cancel their presence at the end-of-year concert to be held in the capital. It is hard to understand why the Public Service should turn the important Sanremo stage into a tribune for people who, probably also due to a lack of culture, disseminate, especially among young people, absolutely unacceptable language and lifestyles. Rai is financed by citizens and cannot be turned into the megaphone of the worst Italy'. Thus the president of the Forza Italia senators, Maurizio Gasparri.

Differenza Donna considers it 'a wicked choice to organise a concert - where the target audience will be girls and boys - in which a singer like Tony Effe, author of sexist, misogynist and violent lyrics, will be among the protagonists. We cannot accept that the Municipality of Rome, which is so important and so committed to combating male violence against women, could even have thought of hosting an artist whose words are a continuous incitement to disrespect and seriously offend the dignity of women' referring to the rapper's participation in the New Year's Eve concert at the Circus Maximus.