During his time in the country, he showed how prostitution is experienced in Medellín and Bogotá, where he also interviewed a murderer who admitted his crimes.
Zazza the Italian is the stage name of Federico Zompichiatti, a 31-year-old young man who was born in the city of Udine, in Italy, and who in recent years has become a very popular content creator. Currently he has more than 1.31 million followers on YouTube, his main social network.
Before the pandemic, Zazza worked as a mixologist, but with the quarantine he made the decision to rethink his life and create a YouTube channel to show the reality of the most conflictive and marginal places on the planet. His first video, published on March 6, 2022, in El Raval in Barcelona, had overwhelming success.
El Raval is a neighborhood in Barcelona that is well known for its high crime and cultural diversity. The title he gave to this video, which already has more than 3 million views, was designed to leave no one indifferent: “300 robberies a day.”
From there, Zazza the Italian has not stopped traveling and documenting his experiences in areas such as the outskirts of Paris, Bulgaria, Albania, Mexico, Argentina and recently Colombia. His objective is to make known the stories of people who live in these conditions, as well as to denounce the injustices and social problems they suffer.
For example, in his recent passage through our country he entered the most dangerous areas of the Santa Fe neighborhood to document the reality of prostitution or the poor people who live there, but they have to live with the women of the night who also They are looking to earn their bread.
He also traveled to Medellín to talk about this problem and reflect both the lives of prostitute women and that of trans people who also make a living from this profession.
Zazza the Italian never judges his interviewees and is usually very empathetic, which is why he has quickly gained fans on social networks. He has an empirical journalistic curiosity and a lot of courage to enter the most dangerous neighborhoods in the world. Although sometimes, to enter them he requests accompaniment from the police.
The controversy of Zazza and his video interviewing murderers
In recent days, a short film by Zazza generated a lot of discontent among Colombian citizens, but not precisely because of his work or his attitude when making it. This is a video called The hitmen of Bogotáwhere one of the interviewees declares: “I spent 13 years giving up (killing) people.”
Citizen outrage erupted with a video from W Radio, where more than getting angry with the YouTuber, what they wonder is why the police don’t contact him so that Zazza can reveal the secret location of the murderers. An action that could put the content creator in danger if he decided to make videos in our country again.
According to the radio program where this topic was discussed, the police – possibly aware of this detail – have announced that, although this video does serve to start an investigation, they have no intention of seeking out the YouTuber to reveal this confidential information.
The police did clarify that they are concluding whether this video is a montage or not and reviewing whether Zazza’s information can be used to make the corresponding arrests.
Below is the video of the controversy.
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