The rapper Kappa 24k, to the century, will go to trial Islam Abdel Karim, arrested on 4 February on charges of detention and carrying a shotgun and explosion in the air of several shots on the public route. And with him too Carlo Testa, 51, convicted of drug abuse and charged in this case with attempted murder. Both were involved in a shooting last January 8 in Piazza Monte Falterona, in the San Siro area of Milan. The first hearing is scheduled for May.
It would have been Testa, according to the investigations of the Flying Squad coordinated by the prosecutor Stefano Civardi, to seriously injure a 26-year-old Egyptian, but the real target had to be Kappa24K. The rapper, on the other hand, would have fired shots in the air. The shooting that evening had come following an escalation of violence that had seen two groups of rappers, those of San Siro and those of Piazza Prealpi, against each other.
The war of rappers at San Siro between fights and guns in front of children: this is how Kappa24k was arrested
by Ilaria Carra, Luca De Vito
Among the reasons for the quarrel he teased between the two crews on the web, but also the envy and the clashes on the fees from the record companies. Testa, according to the investigations, would have changed sides, passing to the antagonist group of Piazza Prealpi, which would also include the rappers Rondo da Sosa, Simba the Street e these, also known to the chronicles. A witness had reported that shortly before one of the rappers in a video call had said: “Come here, we are in Piazza Falterona, I’ll shoot you in the face”. Intercepted on 11 January Kappa24K said: “if I catch him before the police find him (referring to Testa, ed) I send him into a coma (…) he comes to me to do this (…) ambush with thirty people, son of p …, infamous “.
San Siro shooting, the rapper Kappa 24K speaks: “Testa was a friend of mine: I don’t know who wanted to kill me”
by Massimo Pisa