There is no peace for Fedez, who has lost his legal battle against the Codacons. The rapper - the consumer association announces in a note - had sued Codacons for defamation after being accused of 'hidden advertising' and 'homophobia': the Rome Court rejected Fedez's requests, ordering the filing of the complaint 'for non-existence of the fact and for that of the subjective element'.
Fedez loses the case against Codacons
The story began in 2021, when Codacons reported an alleged case of hidden advertising by the rapper in favor of a well-known sports brand during the May 1st concert in Rome, and made known some 'homophobic texts' of the rapper in conjunction with Fedez's campaign on the Zan ddl. The complaint prompted Chiara Ferragni's husband to sue Codacons for defamation.
Defamation complaint filed
'Today the Gip of the Rome Court, Dr. Anna Maria Gavoni, with a very important order not only rejects the rapper's requests, but also rejects Fedez on the whole line, fully confirming the legitimacy of the Codacons' complaints', the association explains. It is written in the text of the decision with which the Gip files the complaint of Fedez: 'As for the hidden advertising the objectivity of the fact, or of having worn on the stage of the concert of May 1st the Lucia a cap with the Nike logo, admitted also by the opponent, must be strictly connected to the pending at the Authority guaranteeing competition and market a proceeding against the same Lucia; it does not matter as highlighted by the PM the circumstance that such proceeding has been filed since the same Authority has defined such advertising 'obvious and not 'hidden', corroborating such qualification the public interest of the news'.
'As for the position on homophobia: the non-existence of elements of the falsity of the statements is derived from the song 'Tutto il contrario' whose text contains the following period 'I am interested that Tiziano Ferro has made outing. Now I know that he has eaten more sausages than sauerkraut. He had introduced himself in a strange way with Cristicchi. Hi, I'm Tiziano, it's not that he sticks it to me [...]'. The Gip believes that the expression used and contested by the investigated cannot be simply extrapolated from a much broader story, in particular the story related to the 'advertising', hidden or obvious, on which the public opinion and the investigated as legal representative of the Codacons has placed the attention. In this context, therefore, the Gip believes that, having to ensure on a theme of pregnant and indisputable public interest, the full unfolding of freedom of expression, the offense to the personal reputation of the opponent has not reached a certain level of gravity and has not been inflicted in such a way as to cause a prejudice for the social and professional reputation of the same. Therefore the accusatory hypothesis finds no basis for the non-existence of the fact and for that of the subjective element, with consequent filing of the criminal proceeding'.
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