Berlusconi tearful pledge of innocence in front of thousand of supporters

Sunday, 4 August 2013. Thousands of Berlusconi's supporters travel – free of charge – to Rome to listen to Forza Italia's founder pledge of innocence and refusal to be called (and treated as a) fraudster.

Silvio Berlusconi and girlfriend Francesca Pascale, moved and tested

Who thought that Silvio Berlusconi's first definitive conviction would mean get rid of the billionaire and calm down Italy, should think again, as the former prime minister gathered thousands of supporter in a meeting in Rome and Italian politics seems bound to plunge into turmoil.

“I am innocent” declared Berlusconi to the crowd (more precisely he said: “I am in-no-cent” to make it absolutely clear that he was telling the truth and that everybody understood it), “Mediaset never issued a fake invoice”, he pledged, even though previously he tried to convince various courts that he was innocent because he had no idea what was going on in the company, did non even know the contents of the yearly budget (let alone single invoices).

Supporters of Silvio Berlusconi in Rome

The 76-year-old billionaire was moved to tears by his own words, thankfully his young girlfriend Francesca Pascale was near him to help alleviate the suffering.

In the meanwhile Sandro Bondi, former Italian Communist Party's militant and now national co-ordinator of the People of Freedom Party (PdL), warned that if a solution was not to be found (to save Berlusconi's skin) the country could head into a “civil war”, in an attempt to convince the Head of State – Giorgio Napolitano – to grant a presidential pardon to the convicted politician.

And most possibly we haven't seen nothing yet, what will happen if Silvio Berlusconi would be convicted definitively also for his sexual-related charges?

The Rubygate already yielded him a seven-year jail-term (pending appeal) for and his associates various length prison sentences. And there are other trials still to be ended, like the Lodo Mondadori, the UNIPOL issue and the horse-trading deal (here's a post on the remaining proceedings).

Silvio Berlusconi called “irresponsible” the magistrates of the (holiday section of the) supreme court that sentenced him, “irresponsible” was in turn called Sandro Bondi for his referring to a “civil war”, and around Europe many thinks that Italy's fuss is “irresponsible”, potentially it could aggravate the Euro crisis. Th list of irresponsible people might not end here.

Will it end well?