Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: ma sì, facciamoci riconoscere

EUROPE: Berlusconi ally races to halt bribes trial verdict 
By Tony Barber
Financial Times; Apr 29, 2003
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030429000665&query=italy&vsc_appId=totalSearch&state=Form
 
Cesare Previti, a friend and political ally of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, was
yesterday racing to stop a Milan court from reaching a verdict in a trial in which he is accused of
bribing judges.
Faced with the possibility of a verdict as early as today, Mr Previti's lawyers presented two new
challenges to the court's right to continue the trial. In Rome, meanwhile, the lower house of
parliament, where Mr Berlusconi's centre-right coalition has a majority, yesterday passed a bill
drafted by his supporters that opposition legislators said could thwart a verdict in Mr Previti's
trial.
The case is turning into a flashpoint not just between government and opposition, but between Mr
Berlusconi's allies and a group of prosecutors and judges in Milan, whom the prime minister says are
out to destroy his career and that of his friend.
Mr Previti, 68, was defence minister in Mr Berlusconi's 1994 government and is a member of
parliament for his Forza Italia party. He is charged with bribing judges to influence two corporate
takeovers earlier in the 1990s, and faces up to 13 years in prison if convicted.
In a separate trial in Milan, Mr Berlusconi is accused of bribing judges in a takeover case dating
to the 1980s. Both he and Mr Previti adamantly assert their innocence, but the centre-left
opposition says their frequent attacks on the courts' impartiality are damaging Italy's justice
system.
A Milan appeals court said it would rule today on the latest challenges presented by Mr Previti's
lawyers. All Mr Previti's previous appeals have been turned down, a pattern which, if continued,
could prompt the judges hearing his case to meet behind closed doors soon afterwards to consider
their verdict.
Even though Mr Previti's trial appears to be in its final stages, the outcome may be significantly
affected by the bill under discussion in parliament. This would give defendants the right to have
their trials suspended for at least 45 days while they negotiate a plea bargain with the court.
Opposition legislators, suspecting that Mr Previti may seek to delay his trial verdict, voted
against, but the bill was carried by 261 to 160, with seven abstentions.
But some government supporters denied the bill would help Mr Previti, pointing out that it would
need approval by the Senate, or upper house, to become law. This procedure could take at least one
month, meaning the law might come into effect too late for Mr Previti's purposes.
 
 
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La libertà è libertà di dire che due più due fa quattro.
Concessa questa libertà, tutte le altre ne seguono.
George Orwell, 1984


ma il finanscial taims cosa dice dei cd che si ronpono tra le ginocchia,
delle Gioconde viste dall'ariosto nello studio di previti, delle
registrazioni magnetiche su tovagliolini di carta, dei verbali di ben 12
magistrati deponenti a favore di previti e inrintracciabili al tribunale di
milano?
Ecco, quando il finanscial avrà risposto a queste semplicissime domande (ma
forse, da quel "autorevole giornale" qual è, nemmeno conosce questi
fatterelli...), allora dirò che ci siamo fatti riconoscere. Ma per ora
riconosciamo solamente la tua solita idiotocomunistità.
Hasta...
GZ