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There is no trial or investigation in which Berlusconi has not raised the stakes by skillfully using the huge media coffers that he has always had behind him.
In trials as in illness, the result for the Cavalier was always the same: increased consensus.
There is no other way to explain why, regardless of the amount of court proceedings with 8 convictions in the first degree, but only one final, and the diseases that have affected him in the last 20 years (cancer, heart attack, uveitis, even Covid 19) , Silvio Berlusconi always came out better in the end than before.
More from trials in truth than diseases, despite the prophecies of someone like Professor Umberto Scapagnini, the former mayor of Catania and for a long time his personal physician, who predicted "a quasi-technical immortality" without being able to have the satisfaction of personal verification (passed away in 2013".
Because in a sense the knight was "immortal" for a long time.
In fact, no other man in the world could undergo such a number of investigations, managing to survive in the bipartisan imagination of Italians, evoking sympathy and love even where he was once hated or, at the very least, unloved.
Bribes for the Guardia di Finanza (corruption), All Iberian (illegal party financing), Mediaset TV rights (tax fraud), Ruby (prostitution and extortion of children) are just a few stages of a very articulate litigation that almost always has traveled in parallel with the political one, paradoxically increasing its electoral advantage.
Although, even in investigations, there is a before and an after.
Of course, all the investigations related to the first Berlusconi, the genius and extremely unscrupulous entrepreneur closely linked to the party system of the First Republic, belong to "money".
So here are the accusations for bribes to the Guardia di Finanza, those for 20 billion loans in PSI (All Iberian), for the corruption of Roman judges, for the "Segrate war".
Almost all end with a first-instance conviction, which is then overturned on appeal or in the High Court, or is time-barred or archived.
Sometimes with serious consequences in the civil field, as shown by the Mondadori affair that forced him to pay his arch-nemesis, the engineer Carlo De Benedetti, 541 million euros in compensation for the stolen conviction for the Mondadori Prize, a story of judicial corruption, which for Berlusconi had been criminally resolved by statute of limitations.
Among the constants of Cavalieri's trials is actually the conviction of brilliant co-defendants – like Cesare Previti, defense minister in his first government, for the corruption of judges; Marcello Dell'Utri, founder of Publitalia and architect of Forza Italia, for mafia collusion; the English lawyer David Mills, the creator of the Fininvest offshore system, and then Emilio Fede, Lele Mora, Nicole Minetti for the Arcore parties, and even his brother Paolo for the first bribes to the Gdf.
The prescription or release of the Cavalier corresponds precisely, sometimes due to the so-called "laws ad personam", initiated in the midst of a thousand controversies by the governments headed by him.
Then there are the "after" trials, i.e. those concerning the second Berlusconi, the man now in power who surrounds himself with courtiers and courtesans and organizes Arcore's famous "elegant dinners" based on sex and rich tips with consequences still open for the "softened" testimonies of "Olgettina" (investigations opened in Milan, Siena and Rome) and those for prostitution in Palazzo Grazioli (Bari).
Although he was ultimately acquitted, his history of underage prostitution and unscrupulous use of power (he called Milan police headquarters to "free" Moroccan minor Ruby Rubacuori) hurt him more than any other charge.
After all, women have always been the Cavalier's cross and delight.
It was a jury that sentenced him to 7 years in prison in the first instance, it was a woman, the prosecutor Ilda Boccassini who read the indictment, the girls who attended his trial in Arcore were young and wild women and got him into trouble with constant demands for money.
Just as the divorce battle with Veronica Lario raises noise, who after receiving a compensation of 36 million euros a year, sees her food halved and also has to pay 45 million euros previously received, as determined by the Cassation .
A continuous rebirth, the secret of which is probably hidden in the systematic paroxysm of his life: great trials, great diseases, great villas, even great lovers (in number) with kolme forms.
There is no trial or investigation in which Berlusconi has not raised the stakes by skillfully using the huge media coffers that he has always had behind him.
Starting with the very famous first notice of bail handed to him in Naples on November 21, 1994, while, as prime minister, he presided over an international crime summit attended by some 140 foreign delegations.
"Judicial coup", thundered Silvio, who, to protect himself from the trials, more than in the trials, managed to make the fight against justice a very effective political warhorse.
For example, ask the magistrates of the Milan prosecutor's office, who since 1994 have subjected him to all kinds of investigations and trials that turn out to be refractory (he defined them as "anthropologically different from the human race") to songs, not so touching, of the siren Berlusconi and therefore gaining the immortal anathema of "communist magistrates" (December 1994), a definition so failed that it has caused colossal misunderstandings over the following years regarding the positioning of certain currents of his own the judiciary.
He, Cavalieri, on the other hand, has always wanted to press the gas: "I am the most persecuted man in the West, I have 106 proceedings to my credit."
An excessive number and with a variable geometry depending on the circumstances and electoral conveniences (it could be 50 or 80 depending on the gathering).
In reality, the number, although smaller, remains impressive: 34 trials (understood as complete proceedings, from the report of the crime to the Cassation) in which practically the entire criminal code is considered: starting from corruption, to prostitution, to mafia deals, false accounting, illegal construction, corruption in court documents.
The list opens with a now-forgotten (and subsequently amnestied) 1990 conviction by the Venice Court of Appeals, which convicts him of his enrollment in P2's Masonic and coup lists.
The real figures, although they do not show in detail the judicial epic of Cavalieri, are the following: 8 processes completed by statute of limitations; 2 due to amnesty; 2 because the fact no longer constitutes a crime (probably modified by a law of the same government headed by Berlusconi); 8 with acquittal sentences; 10 with archiving; 5 are still ongoing; only one was finally closed with a conviction in 2013: the well-known tax fraud (with false accounting and embezzlement) in the sale of Mediaset films that led to his final conviction and forfeiture of the senatorial seat to 4 years in prison, from which only one with a discount in the care of social services.
That is why Berlusconi tried to redeem his honor until the last minute by trying to overturn this decision even before the European Court of Human Rights, clinging to the careless public statements of the president of the Supreme Court.
Finally, the latest battle is a stone thrown by the EU Court on the Mediaset empire with a sentence which, disregarding an Italian law, recognized the right of the French Vivendi to buy 28 percent of the shares of Biscione, calling into question, for the first time, the exclusive ownership of the Berlusconi family over decisions about the company.
Perhaps it really is the end of an era./ La Stampa
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