THE ITALIAN PREMIER Silvio Berlusconi has insisted he is “not at all worried” about the prospect of his trial, which is scheduled to take place on 6 April.
Prosecutors in Milan have compiled a 700 page dossier against him, which includes the allegation that the billionaire tycoon paid for sex with a 17 year old nightclub dancer nicknamed Ruby the Heart Stealer.
He is accused of paying for sex with an underage girl and abuse of office.
The Daily Telegraph reports that a press conference in Rome, he was asked repeatedly about the trial, and eventually snapped:
For the love of the country, I will not talk about this. Enough! I can only say one thing: I’m not worried at all.
And Berlusconi might argue that he has good reason not to be worried: Bloomberg Business Week reports that by his own reckoning, since becoming Italy’s Prime Minister, he has endured 105 judicial probes and trials and 2,500 court hearings – and not a single one has survived the country’s tortuous appeals process.
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