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| One of Silvio's trials |
Not
long ago Silvio Berlusconi could boast of never being sentenced to a single day of prison in
spite of the number of trials – more than one hundred – where he
has been indicted, for a reason or another (but mainly due to the
aggressiveness of the left-wing magistrates, according to the former
prime minister of Italy).
This statement isn't true any more, since in October 2012 he
collected the first 4-year sentence at the Mediaset-trial (a decision that made him rethink his retirement from politics...), and in
March 2013 he managed to gain another year in prison, due to the
Unipol case (when an insurance company – Unipol – takeover bid by
Rome's bank Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in 2005 led to the
resignation of the governor of the Bank of Italy, Antonio Fazio).
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| Piero Fassino rejoices |
The
conviction is related to the publication of the script of the
interception of a phone call (between Italian Democratic Party - PD - politician Piero
Fassino and Giovanni Consorte, boss of Unipol insurance company),
published by Milan newspaper Il Giornale, part of Berlusconi family
media empire.
Silvio's
brother Paolo Berlusconi, publisher of the newspaper, was convicted
on the same charge and sentenced to two years and three months in
prison. Piero Fassino, the left-wing politician – and now Turin's
city mayor –, who allegedly asked from Consorte «So,
do we own a bank?» was awarded the sum of €80,000
(equivalent to approximately £70,000 or $105,000) in damages.
What
does The Knight think of all this? «An intolerable persecution» he
burst out, from «a cancer of our democracy», as he labelled Italian judiciary earlier this month (you can see the video on our YouTube Channel).
In the
meanwhile Silvio Berlusconi is also accused of having bribed a couple
of member of the Senate of Italy, of having paid for having sex with
an under-age prostitute, of having cheated the Italian voters by sending a misleading letter to millions of them... just to keep the
Italian judiciary occupied.
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