Saturday, 9 March, 2013. Silvio Berlusconi takes refuge from Italian judiciary in Milan hospital as two of his trials resume and the country gets stuck in political deadlock.
Last
Saturday Silvio Berlusconi was expected to appear in court – the
Mediaset trial was on, and the Rubygate was also reaching its apex –
but his lawyers gave way to an «escalation of medical
certifications» (as prosecutor Ilda Boccassini put it) in order to
provide the former prime minister of Italy with a «legitimate
impediment», a lawful excuse not to attend.
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Cicchitto: «a
Stalinist court that sent Nazi doctors to examine Berlusconi,»
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What's
the matter with him? Uveitis, a kind of conjunctivitis that causes
sensitivity to light, headaches, blurred vision and other unpleasant
symptoms. Not many chances that the judiciary and Silvio Belusconi
will get to see eye to eye... The media tycoon has being treated at
Milan's San Raffaele hospital.
It
partially worked, as Silvio's request was accepted by the Ruby sex
scandal case court, but was rejected by «a Stalinist court that sent
Nazi doctors to examine Berlusconi,», as Fabrizio Cicchitto - a top
official in the People of Freedom party (PDL) - put it, and found out
that Berlusconi could easily attend to a trial, perhaps wearing a
fashionable pair of sunglasses. (Translator's note: Historians might
find it remarkable that Nazis and Bolsheviks finally found a way to
join their goals, just for the sake of bringing Silvio down...).
