Rapper Killa, probed over 'ultra' case, to sing at Sanremo

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 29 - Rapper Emis Killa is set to perform at the Sanremo Song Festival next month even though he has been ordered by Milan's police chief Bruno Megale not to attend sporting events, including football matches, for the next three years over his involvement in an anti-Mafia probe into AC Milan and Inter Milan ultra leaders, Milan daily Corriere della Sera reported on Wednesday.
    Killa, a 35-year-old AC Milan fan whose real name is Emiliano Rudolf Giambelli, is being probed on criminal association charges.
    The artist, who will attend Sanremo with his new song Demoni (Demons), is being probed by DDA anti-Mafia investigators along with members of organized fan groups over their alleged involvement in criminal affairs that led to 19 arrests back in September, wrote Corriere della Sera, noting on its front page how he is considered "too dangerous to enter a stadium but he can serenely perform at Sanremo".
    According to investigators, Killa was identified with 14 other ultra fans while hitting a steward at the stadium and he is allegedly friends with ultra leaders involved in the probe including Fabiano Capuzzo and Luca and Francesco Lucci with whom he "manages a barber's shop in Monza".
    He reportedly posts on social media photos with people who are suspected by investigators of being close to Calabria's organized crime such as Alfonso Cuturello and Antonio Favasuli.
    (ANSA).