Massimo Fini
Italy it is a curious country. Free, in addition to everything else, memory, especially in its ruling class, political, intellectual and journalistic, as evidenced by the totalitarian and turibolante eulogy paid tribute to Francesco Cossiga while going up his misdeeds in relatively recent times and almost all alive Witnesses of the time. Now that is dancing in the dining room of the President of everyone, not just the "Finian" but also the newspapers of the left, including our own, "discover" the enormous deception that Silvio Berlusconi, in cahoots with Previti, worked in the early 70, against the Marquis Annamaria Casati Stampa snatching, for a loaf of bread, Arcore villa (3500 square meters), the Tintoretto the Tiepolo, Luini that furnish, a park of one million square feet and a huge plot of 2.466 million (duemilioniquattrocentosessantaseimila) square feet in the town of Cusago (the figure of 500 million pounds). Of all the atrocities attributed to Berlusconi that is, from a moral standpoint, the most repugnant and serious. For here we are not dealing with a contractor just to run his company is moving to the limits of legality and sometimes beyond them, grease the wheels, pay any bribe to the financiers, inflated invoices to evade taxation and funds vested blacks and maybe then bribes a witness to save himself from investigations by the prosecution, all of which (apart from bribery of witnesses, I hope at least) are part of a proven business malpractice, but they are so generalized and enter the custom of the Italian company to no longer be perceived in their true gravity. Here are two figures who take advantage of a young girl at the beginning of each minor, suddenly become an orphan of father and mother in the most traumatic way. In fact, Marquess Casati Stampa liked watching his beautiful wife and if he did with the young lovers. But one day, in 1970, the dangerous game got out of hand. The woman fell in love with one of these casual lovers and the Marquis, mad with jealousy, killed his wife, the young man and then committed suicide. To escape the huge scandal and regain a bit of serenity Anna fled to Brazil. So Previti, who was the young protutore, and Berlusconi had a free hand.
THE INVESTIGATION OF "PEOPLE"
But the curious thing, so to speak, is that the story of the villa and outbuildings Arcore was known and published in November 1994. He had told and documented, so accurate, a courageous journalist People (actually would be waited to chroniclers of other newspaper investigations of this sort do), John Ruggeri, that the "Vispe Terese" of today is not even have the good manners to remind, in a chapter of his book ("The business of the President") entitled "The Great cheating. "Only the 'Espresso filming the story. Berlusconi, then prime minister, did not move ear. It does not move at all (it had done previously when Night , interviewing Ruggeri, had given some advance, with a threatening phone call to the director, Pero Giorgianni, shouting: "I reduced the poverty." Giorgianni And he answered: "It can not, Chairman. I'm already poor"). Previti, defense minister, announced a lawsuit. Then everything fell into oblivion. It was I, six months later, to re-float the story of the villa in Arcore when I happened by chance in his hands, the Book of Roger (generally not fond of this type of journalism) and I read the shocking story. I wrote a fund, on 'Independent , entitled "Dear Berlusconi and Previti, are plaintiffs or criminals?". (The Independent, 06/05/1994. The article, if interested, is available in my latest book, "Soul," in May this year). You for telling the story word for word by getting Ruggeri, and I asked if Berlusconi and Previti had sued his colleague who had so infamous (actually I knew that they had not done so) because "citizenship can not be left in doubt that a former president of the Council once again become a candidate and a former defense minister is of swindlers, criminals, common law criminals. Looking forward to a response. "Berlusconi, as usual, remained silent. Previti as well. I wrote a second fund, repeating the question. Previti replied with a fax twisted and tangled, where, playing with gerunds, whether he did or not the proposed lawsuit. Finally in my third fund, pulled by the hair and only at that time (six months had passed since the publication of the book) it was decided to take action against Ruggeri, against the 'Espresso and against me. But not with a criminal complaint with whom the world began (sorry that up until then) is to protect its reputation and wants to ascertain the truth of the facts, but with a civil action for damages for defamation where the focus is primarily injury and also called a thief thief may be damaged if this was "not in terms of continents." So he wants our law. The Civil Court of Rome, in its ruling of 03.12.1999, carry out and Ruggeri L 'Espresso having considered the judge, Frank Mangano, "does not challenge the substantial truth, at least putative" facts narrated by Ruggeri. Condemns me as arguing that the lawsuit is a right, not a duty of a citizen, I could not draw from its failure to bring by Previti (and implicitly of Berlusconi) the conclusions he had drawn.
the judicial battle
I had my hands tied because I was convicted, albeit for reasons quite weird (I could not draw conclusions that the court considered true). I was surprised, however, that the 'Espresso , who had won the case and of this importance, not the ride and remain silent. As for Ruggeri had been intimidated to the point that he wrote a statement in which he mistrusted anyone to refer to his book. Which is to say the least, unusual. Moreover the same Ruggeri had told me that when he talked to the Casati Stampa - who had meanwhile married a Donà delle Rose, and had rebuilt a life in Brazil - she seemed very timid. He was afraid of them. Especially Previti. And his testimony to the letters rogatory, which was made Appeals, is full of "I do not remember" very strange and at the limit of reticence. I called and began an 10-year long case, which cost me time, effort, money, stress, without which no newspaper or political opposition of hilling I could, leaving me alone in this battle. Until the Court of Appeal of Rome, Judgement of 8 October 2008, I was acquitted by considering the legitimate questions I posed to Previti and Berlusconi because of public interest. Now come the "antemarcia" of later historical category in Italy, and "discover" the story of the villa in Arcore. I said at the beginning, that this is a country that in its ruling class, has no memory. Not is correct. Politicians and journalists remember or forget, depending on convenience, convenience, time. That's not a nice way of doing politics and even less of good journalism.
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