Top TikTok user was born in Senegal but has been in Italy since age one and says he ‘always felt Italian’
He was notified of his citizenship by the Italian interior ministry on 8 June, a couple of weeks before overtaking the American social media star Charli D’Amelio, to be crowned the world’s top TikTok user.
It comes amid a longstanding political debate over whether to grant citizenship at birth to children born in Italy to foreign parents, regardless of their parents’ citizenship, thus bringing Italy into line with other European countries. Currently, children born in Italy to foreign parents can only apply from the age of 18.
Each time the topic is raised, it provokes a fiery reaction from the far-right Brothers of Italy and League, which are tipped to win general elections on 25 September in alliance with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
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