Italy's embattled prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, could face a raft of new prosecutions when the country's highest court rules on Tuesday whether a law which shields him from criminal prosecution should be repealed. If the court rules that that the law is unconstitutional, several cases involving the scandal-prone media tycoon will become active again. Mr Berlusconi pushed through the controversial law, which grants immunity to himself and Italy's three other most senior office holders, shortly after being elected prime minister last year for the third time.
If the court rules that that the law is unconstitutional, several cases involving the scandal-prone media tycoon will become active again.
Mr Berlusconi pushed through the controversial law, which grants immunity to himself and Italy's three other most senior office holders, shortly after being elected prime minister last year for the third time.
Then there are the mafia investigations that have opened up a whole new scenario with the confessions of the Mafia Boss, Gaspare Spatuzza. Spatuzza now reveals that he was the one who robbed the car which was used to blow up Judge Borsellino and his guards. The flip side is that Spatuzza worked for the clan that had relations with Berlusconi's group through Cinà and Dell'Utri. It appears that the group that confessed the theft and charging the vehicle with explosives may have done so to lead investigators and the court away from the actual executors of the assassination.
As a recent comment goes (Massimo Fini), Fellini once remarked that Italy excedes the imagination.
Fortunately, the Lodo Alfano does not suspend investigations. That's all we need.
