Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Berlusconi at his upcoming trial: "Ending the legislature"

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has ruled in his resignation today and claimed that there is "not at all worried" about his conviction for child prostitution and abuse of power. "For love of country that do not speak," said Berlusconi, "I can only say one thing: I'm not worried at all." After breaking a silence of 24 hours in a press conference on economy minister Giulio Tremonti at the Chigi Palace, headquarters of the Prime Minister, Berlusconi added that do not plan to resign but to "finish the legislature." "Last night the leaders of the Northern League showed their closeness me throughout the evening in the palace Grazioli," he told.

"We are more cohesive than ever. I think soon we will have 325 seats in Parliament. Most quiet go ahead, finish up the natural period of the legislature." The delicate state of the Prime Minister, who must face in the coming weeks, four different processes, today is exacerbated by the leaking of the Milan prosecutors' questioning of Karima El Mahroug, dubbed Ruby heartthrob, the Moroccan prostitute 18 years visited a qincena of times while still underage Arcore mansion.

Ruby statements are the main evidence of the judges against the Italian prime minister, called to respond in court on 6 April on allegations of power abuse and child prostitution. The girl Karima El Mahroug said Aug. 3 that the prosecution gave Berlusconi a "about 50,000 euros," the first night we went to Villa San Martino, 14 February 2010.

"He took me aside and took me to a room where we were alone. He said my life would change and, while not explicitly told me sex was not difficult to understand that I was proposing to have sex with him." According to Ruby, at that time thought that Berlusconi was 24 and was an Egyptian, because that's what she told "falsely" when he arrived at the house.

But that changed a few weeks later, in March, according to reports the young: "I return to Arcore and talking with other girls invited, I learn that those who are with him, Silvio, can access a free house. Some girls told me they had an apartment in Milano 2 with five years of rent paid.

" He adds Ruby: "When (Berlusconi) asked me to put my name the house, he should tell the truth. I could not lie anymore. I told the truth: that was smaller and had no documents." At that time, says the girl, Berlusconi said. "You say to everyone that you are the niece of Mubarak and so can justify the resources put at your disposal." Ruby's testimony, which is incomplete, sometimes exaggerated, sometimes reluctant, complete with research into their mobile phone and other statements of the girls who attend parties and what the young Moroccan called "the rite Harem "bunga bunga the basement of a lap dance club, a team of about 20 girls very young to drink, dance and get naked, the host feels and testing here and there ...

The resort tax and technology and find that Ruby has not been in Villa San Martino only three times, as it claims, but many more, and after March, ie when Berlsuconi already knew he was a minor. The cell phone tracking shows that the girl was in Arcore than fifteen nights, and who spoke with Berlusconi on the phone 67 times in 77 days.

Between those times, she went in Villa San Martino, an uninterrupted long weekend, between 24 and 26 April, in which there was an illustrious guest: Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister. The visit ended on 2 May, three weeks before Ruby was arrested in Milan accused of theft. The key to the allegation of abuse of power, which is also the legal battle by the jurisdiction of the court of Milan, Berlusconi is the call to police headquarters the night of May 27.

As stated in the indictment Judge Cristina Census, the concern of Berlusconi to erase all track of the visits of less than Arcore is the engine that moves a contact from Paris, at 23.45, with the chief of staff the Police Headquarters (Police Headquarters). Judge says Berlusconi called to act as Prime Minister, and that its functions are not to be the superior of a police officer, which is for the Minister of Interior, but brings to the table his influence, his condition of public leadership: the power and strength, but not their duties or their institutional duties.

The nuance of abuse is critical to understand who is competent to judge: if he had pressed abusing his office, would be the court of the ministers of the other way, it must order the Court of Milan. Berlusconi and the parliamentary majority so far have held otherwise on the grounds that the chief executive called the police because he wanted to avoid a diplomatic incident as he felt that Ruby was the niece of Mubarak.

Since it was Berlusconi who invented itself as Ruby said, the fictive kinship, the judge dismissed the petition. The refusal has a decisive impact on the whole process: when the Court prosecutes a deputy Ministers, Parliament votes on whether to grant or deny prior permission to prosecute, which could easily curb Berlusconi cause.

Thus, the majority has no voice or vote. With what seems impossible to avoid a trial on April 6.

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