Ruby Ter, pm: “Berlusconi is ill, but the process goes on”

The Ruby Ter trial must go on, even if Silvio Berlusconi is “seriously ill” and “nothing portends a quick situation”. Thus began the deputy prosecutor of Milan Tiziana Siciliano her speech in the courtroom where the trial is underway. “We – he explained – absolutely believe that Berlusconi is seriously ill and suffering from a severe pathology, but we must consider the state of the other defendants who are ‘hanging'”. “I believe that Berlusconi is really bad reading the medical certificates produced in the process and also produced by various consultants in other processes such as Siena, I have no doubt that the situation is particularly serious and nothing portends a quick situation”, he explains later. that the former prime minister’s defense has asked for a further postponement due to health conditions. For the prosecutor in the face of a trial “that has lasted a long time with many defendants”, there is the right that the trial be carried out within a reasonable time, hence the proposal “to separate the position of the accused Berlusconi”, but to continue for the other defendants following a schedule already set. The idea is of a ‘temporary separation’ of Berlusconi’s position from that of the other defendants. The Milanese trial will resume on May 26 when, after the intervention of all the defenders, the judges will then decide whether to remove the position of the leader of Forza Italia and separate it from that of the other 28 defendants. This was established by the court of Milan. After a long council chamber, the college chaired by judge Marco Tremolada decided to postpone the decision with respect to the proposal of the prosecutor to temporarily remove the position of Berlusconi, accused of corruption in judicial acts but whose health conditions have long kept him away from courtrooms, from those of the other defendants who have the right to a trial in certain times. A hypothesis of an excerpt which the defense of Berlusconi was not opposed, represented by the lawyer Federico Cecconi, while some of the present defenses were opposed, arguing that “this is the trial of Berlusconi, the others are like the Panini stickers in a soccer championship “, in short, just a side dish. Few lawyers were present for a referral hearing, so the lawyer Fabio Giarda suggested “setting an ad hoc hearing to hear all the defenses” before deciding on the excerpt. And so we return to the classroom next May 26, at the fair to comply with the anti Covid rules, to decide on the possibility of continuing – until Berlusconi is fully recovered – without the former premier. In the event of an excerpt, the examination of the witness Giuseppe Spinelli will continue. but underlines the need for a “period of absolute rest” that Berlusconi is spending in his villa in Arcore transformed into a sort of ‘domestic hospital’. An absolute rest that “I do not think can be solved in seven, fifteen days”, explains the lawyer Federico Cecconi in the courtroom, who considers the postponement of the trial for a week “unrealistic”. The hypothesis of removing the position of Silvio Berlusconi and separating it from that of the other 28 defendants is “an assessment that was carried out by the prosecutor who, in my opinion, takes due account of the persistence of Dr. Berlusconi’s health conditions. However, the trial is also the responsibility of other people, so I understand the position taken today by the prosecutor “, then said Cecconi on the sidelines of today’s hearing. For Cecconi the prosecutor, who said that Berlusconi is ‘seriously ill’, “has done nothing but rightly ascertain the data that can be found from the examination of the numerous certifications and medical reports that we have paid to the proceedings”.
BERLUSCONI “STILL DEBILITATED AND CONSTANTLY MONITORED” Silvio Berlusconi “was discharged on Saturday and is now constantly monitored at home. An important part of the house in Villa San Martino has been equipped to allow him to recover his health conditions. State of strict hospital stay, evidently the conditions of a defunct subject are still “, said the lawyer Cecconi during the trial. The situation in which Berlusconi finds himself” is still in a home stay “. Furthermore, for the lawyer there are no “discrepancies” with the statements of Berlusconi’s personal doctor, Alberto Zangrillo. “A whole series of more or less imaginative news had come out regarding a much more than degeneration of Berlusconi’s health conditions and Professor Zangrillo rightly dampened any kind of further speculation in the bud”. According to Antonio Tajani, vice president of Forza Italia, Berlusconi will soon be back in public, but Cecconi explains that he has “no elements against which I can confirm what is certainly an indication of hope”.