Shade was robbed outside his home: “Turin worse than the Bronx”

With a post on Instagram the rapper Shade He recounts the dynamics of the assault and robbery he suffered on Saturday evening outside his home in Turin.

“I was attacked outside my house” says the 36-year-old artist (real name Vito Ventura) in the video posted, showing the marks on his neck and adds: “The paradoxical thing is that nothing happened to me in the last week in Queens, Brooklyn, Harlem where I walked around at any time of day or night. Back in Italy, outside my house: bam! These two shady individuals approached, pinned me against the wall and one put his hand around my neck and started squeezing hard”. He then goes into details of the attack he suffered: “At that point, I felt I had the right, in friendship, to throw a chestnut in their face simply to free myself and run away, as I did (self-defense appears written on the video). They started screaming, they tried to trip me and yell at me. Then they realized that people were starting to look out, because they heard screaming, and they ran away. One of them managed to tear off the necklace I was wearing, it must have been worth 40 euros. It was more of an object of sentimental value… I came out with a few marks but I’m fine…”.

Shade, who in addition to being a singer-songwriter is also an author for the Me against You and has a participation in Sanremo 2019, also stated that he did not receive prompt assistance from the police. “It took them five minutes to answer me – he reports – from the switchboard to which I had to explain the whole dynamic, then they passed me to another switchboard to which I had to explain everything again. Imagine if there had been someone chasing me with a knife”. “I’m sorry because we don’t deserve to walk around the streets and for these things to happen” he concluded.

In a subsequent video on Instagram, Shade posts a piece of his in which he sings his strong position regarding the ongoing clashes in the Gaza Strip.