Our great prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his "escort-esque" stories all over the news...again! Italy is fallen again in one of these wells! About a week ago the Italian constitutional court had to decide whether the legitimate impediment (the law preventing Berlusconi from being trialled or investigated by the police) agreed or went against the constitution of Italy. Their decision? They weren't sure either. After a two day meeting they decided to let the judges dealing with the cases (3 of them) decide whether Berlusconi's "excuses" (given he is a prime minister after all and should be working a lot!) for not appearing in court were valid or not. His trials restarted, but now Berlusconi can still extend them dramatically by having "good excuses" for not appearing in court. So basically, nothing changed, and the constitutional court decision was pretty useless...
But then, the next day, the Italian prosecutors came up with a new accusation (on top of the other 3) to Berlusconi: under age sex and prostitution allegations! Previously Berlusconi had been accused of fraud, corruption and false testimony, but never for anything this big. I mean, under-age sex and prostitution? Berlusconi? It doesen't sound right does it? And the coincidence: the day after the constitutional court ruling, the magistrates accuse Berlusconi of something new? I can imagine how he can get away with most if not all of anything "wrong" he is doing, but this? I am not quite sure what to believe now, and to be really honest, I couldn't care less what Berlusconi is up to or not. The point is that this story has once again stopped politicians from talking about what is important for the country, and talk instead of Berlusconi wrong-doings. The centre-left party does just that: say how unsuitable Berlusconi is a prime minister without never saying what they would do instead, and the centre-right keeps repeating to them that Berlusconi never did anything wrong and the magistrates are politically-driven to "bring him down".
Just today the magistrates released some evidence, which if true, would cast no doubt on Berlusconi's guiltiness. But is all of this true in the first place? The coincidence, the fact that the allegations are so massive, (especially for a prime minister since 1994), the fact that he is so popular in Italy after all? Who knows...but two things are for sure: 1) I am defiantly NOT a Berlusconi supporter and 2) Anyone involved in 4 trials involving pretty much all the worst cases but killing, and involved in massive media and other businesses all over Italy and beyond, cannot have the time and concentration to be a successful prime minister. So WHY is this guy still there? Why hasn't his own party kicked him out! It would happen anywhere, ANYWHERE, else in Europe, especially with these new allegations on prostitution. But not in Italy! So we will have to keep him there and listen to all his stories unfold. Was he ever involved in the Mafia? Has he corrupted lawyer Mills to say the false in court? Has he had sex with an under-age Moroccan girl first referred to as the "nephew of president Mubarak"? If your interested here is the latest BBC report on it, and just to show how serious this last allegation on Berlusconi is, the above picture is the front page of the document (in Italian) from the magistrates asking the house of chambers permission to raid Berlusconi's residences to search for proofs regarding the sex scandal. Mental (!), and what's even more mental is that chances are that nothing will change in Italy because of this new, more crazy, Berlusconi story.
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