And finally Kanye West’s giant concert in Italy will not take place. The mega stage of Campovolo, in Reggio Emilia, is no longer really there, it was dismantled and packed up this weekend. The RCF Arena made it known that the residual hopes that the American rapper’s show would take place were zero, reports La Repubblica.
The concert will therefore not take place… neither this Friday, nor on any other date, after weeks of controversies, speculations, hypotheses, meetings at the prefecture and no official communication from the organization.
Kanye’s dissolute adventures in Italy therefore end in blood sausage.
The controversial rapper, 46, was already scheduled to perform last week at the RCF Arena near Reggio Emilia, but the concert was postponed. Officially, due to bad weather and a train strike.
It was rescheduled for this Friday at the same venue – where Harry Styles played in front of more than 80,000 people last August – before being canceled again, this time citing « security and organizational » problems. The arrival of the artist has in fact aroused the anger of many residents and activists, particularly because of Kanye West’s recent anti-Semitic comments and his praise of the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
“On Monday, we still had no news”
The huge set built on the site at the beginning of the month is therefore being dismantled and a convoy of trucks was seen leaving the area, according to the Italian press. Veterans groups and women’s rights organizations criticized local authorities for agreeing to the concert, which was expected to attract more than 100,000 people and was promoted by the Milan-based company Vivo Concerti.
“We had no choice but to cancel. This kind of event requires a lot of organization, you have to have a health plan, a traffic plan and an idea of how tickets are sold and the number of people,” commented local prefect Maria Rita Cocciufa.
“We were ready, but we had no news from the organizers and, for security reasons, the concert had to be canceled – it was supposed to take place on Friday and, on Monday, we still had no news,” criticized the representative of the local authorities. In fact, the concert was already hardly possible given the deadlines. The sale of tickets, despite the assurances given last week to the managers of the venue by the American organizers, never took place… Kanye West in the text.
