Today the father, Elio, has proposed a new version. His wife, daughter and himself met Berlusconi in 2001 in Rome. I imagine they'll have to start producing witnesses- a fairly easy thing to do within a personal political entity of that nature.
Gino has replied that he finds the whole thing very strange: he asserts there are hundreds of people that know every detail of the story of his relation with Noemi.
La Repubblica.it - Ten questions to Berlusconi » "How `Papi' Berlusconi came into Noemi's life"
Gino Flaminio's words seem genuine, backed up by the photos, by the recollections of their friends (who have pictures of Noemi and Gino on their computer), by a few letters, by the memories of neighbors and his parents, but above all by the obstinacy with which the young man hid himself away for weeks, becoming an invisible presence in Noemi's life.La Repubblica tracked him down with - difficulty, much patience and a lot of luck - in the factory on Corso San Giovanni where all his fellow workmen knew Noemi and the story of Gino's lost love. Fellow workmen who - to the very end - tried to protect him. "Gino? Who is this Gino Flaminio?" while Gino hid behind a wall.
Good. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
