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Silvio Berlusconi RIP #1061565
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This guy was a pisser! What a life and career he had.

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RIP.

I usually dont like to talk bad things about the dead but this guy will probably have an open coffin and some flowers will be placed on his lower parts, since his dick is probably still hard from all of the Viagra that he used throughout his lifetime lol A real "playa from the hood" thats for sure lol He was the "Sam Giancana" of all of Italy lol


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Originally Posted by Hollander
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Whats are you saying H?! Thats a simple "office stapler" Lol lol lol


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Gullit about Berlusconi: 'I am eternally grateful to him'

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One of the most powerful people in Italy. That photo you posted is from 80's, at that time he was member of P2 and close to some of top sicilian mafia players.


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Originally Posted by Strax
One of the most powerful people in Italy. That photo you posted is from 80's, at that time he was member of P2 and close to some of top sicilian mafia players.


His member card of Propaganda Due.

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Licio Gelli spoke well about Berlusconi.


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This man fucked more women than any human being in history. The number is said to be around 70,000 women and this number is not a lie!

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A short story of Berlusconi

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=802080&Searchpage=3&Main=31349&Words=%2Bsilvio+%2Bberlusconi&Search=true#Post802080

September 29, 1936 Silvio Berlusconi born in Milan

1961 he graduated with honors in Jurisprudence took at Statale University

After the first experiences occasional youth work as a singer and entertainer on cruise ships with his friend Fedele Confalonieri and as a door to door salesman of electric brooms with his friend Guido Possa, began working as a real estate agent and, in 1961, he founded the Cantieri Riuniti Milanesi Srl together with the builder Pietro Canali.

To start his business in 1961 in the construction industry Berlusconi he obtained a guarantee by Banca Rasini indicated by Michele Sindona and in various documents of the magistracy as the main bank used by the mafia in northern Italy for money laundering and among the where clients could list Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Pippo Calo.

In 1963 he founded the Edilnord Sas

March 6, 1965 married Carla Elvira Lucia dall'Oglio

August 10, 1966 born the daughter Maria Elvira said Marina

April 28, 1969 born the son Pier Silvio

In the first half of the seventies organized crime based in Milan organized numerous kidnappings for ransom. In this context, in July 1974 by the lawyer from Palermo Marcello Dell'Utri (at the time collaborator of
Berlusconi), Vittorio Mangano was "called upon to perform the function of guarantees and protection "to protect the safety of his employer and his closest family members, in a time when it was decided the transfer of Berlusconi, in the estate of Arcore, just bought. "
Berlusconi "feared that his family were subject to kidnappings," and therefore Dell'Ultri strove "for the hiring of Vittorio Mangano at the villa of Arcore (...) as a" responsible "(or" factor "or "supervisor" if you prefer) and not as a mere "groom", knowing the thickness of the same delinquent Mangano since the time of Palermo (and, indeed, precisely for that its "quality"), obtaining the approval of Stefano Bontate and Girolamo Teresi, at the time two of the "men of honor" most important of "Cosa Nostra" in Palermo

May 26, 1975 a bomb exploded at Berlusconi's villa in via Rovani in Milan, then in restoration, "causing extensive damage with the breakthrough of the perimeter walls and the collapse of the first floor landing».
According as witnessed by Fedele Confalonieri, immediately after the departure of Mangano from Arcore, Berlusconi had received letters with threats: "Precisely because of those threats - said Confalonieri - Berlusconi took his family and brought it first in Switzerland; I remember that we went also to accompany him
with Marcello Dell'Utri in Nyon, which is close to Geneva. I think then they stayed there a couple of weeks or three weeks and then went to the South of Spain, Marbella and stayed there a few months »

In 1978, Berlusconi buys Telemilano which two years later was given the name of Channel 5 and takes the form of a national television network, which includes several issuers. Also in 1978, Berlusconi founded, Fininvest, a holding company that coordinates all the activities of the entrepreneur.


January 26, 1978 entry of Berlusconi in the P2 Masonic lodge, in via dei Condotti in Rome, the card is no. 1816 code E. 19.78 , group 17, file 0625, as is apparent from the documents and receipts seized at the leaders of the loggia

1980 in Milan, he met the actress Veronica Lario, the name of Miriam Bartolini (Bologna, 1956), immediately taking an affair with her, making her move in together to her mother in the headquarters of Fininvest, at villa Borletti Rovani street in Milan.

Arlesheim,July 30, 1984 born the daughter Barbara Berlusconi

1982, the group is expanding with the purchase of Italia 1

1984 buy Rete 4

1984,the district judges in Turin, Pescara and Rome obscure the Fininvest for violating the law that prohibited private networks to broadcast on a national scale. The prosecution is stopped after a few days by the government led by Bettino Craxi, who with a special decree legalizing the situation of Fininvest.
The Fininvest group can with non-legal means for the legislation of those years,to break the monopoly of RAI television.

1985 Berlusconi divorced by Carla Dall'Oglio

February 20, 1986 Silvio Berlusconi is the owner AC Milan Soccer Association

1986 born the daughter Eleonora Berlusconi

November 28, 1986 bomb attack yet against the same villa at via Rovani. From the content of telephone conversations by Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri there were doubts about the attributability of the attack in 1975 just to the person of Mangano ».Complete second attack damage created solely to the outer gate. Berlusconi intercepted, said the explosion on the phone with Dell'Ultri jokingly calling it something "done with great respect, almost with affection (...) because I have only cracked the bottom of the gate," adding
that "in my opinion, is like a request ... another would send a letter or made a phone call: he put the bomb."

1988 born the son Luigi Berlusconi

1990 The Mammì Law definitely makes legal the dissemination at national level of private radio and television programs.

January 26, 1994, the day of the descent into politics with Forza Italy

March 27, 1994 general elections end with the electoral victory of Forza Italia (Go Italy) in the race with the Lega Nord of Umberto Bossi in the northern regions and the MSI Gianfranco Fini in the rest of Italy

January 2, 1996 The prosecutor of Palermo investigated Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri for collusion with the mafia and money laundering. In 1997, the position of Berlusconi has been archived at the end of the preliminary investigation

May 10, 1994 - JANUARY 17 1995 First Berlusconi Government
June 11, 2001 - April 23, 2005 Second Government
April 23, 2005 - May 17, 2006 Third Government
8 May 2008 - 16 November 2011 Fourth Government

2007 prosecutor of Naples opened an investigation into Berlusconi (then leader of the opposition) suspected of bribing Agostino Sacca, Director of Rai Fiction. Among the records of the investigation there is a wiretap between the two defendants, which is published in all media when the investigation is still ongoing The investigation has come to Naples in January at the request of trial, but before would open the process in July 2008, Berlusconi's lawyers asked and obtained the displacement of the investigation in Rome for lack of
territorial jurisdiction.
In 2008 the new officers of the investigation the Roman prosecutors have requested the dismissal of the investigation and the destruction of wiretapping, arguing that "There is no certainty of" do ut des ". The close link between Mr Berlusconi and Sacca, which is evident by the investigative, was such as to allow the former to carry messages per second without promise or getting anything in return "

In the fourth Berlusconi government,Mara Carfagna, a former showgirl, was chosen to fill the role of Minister for Equal Opportunities.
According to many rumors, some wiretaps carried out as part of a corruption investigation against Berlusconi ould have produced material is not subject to prosecution on alleged sexual favors made ??by the President of
the Council of Ministers as Minister Berlusconi in exchange for the minister role.

July 2009, the newspaper L'Espresso publishes on its website the audio recordings of the meetings between Silvio Berlusconi and escort Patrizia D'Addario (made ​​by herself).
These records date back to October 2008 and were filed by the same D'Addario at the prosecutor's office in Bari, who has heard and published as relevant - along with other wiretaps - to shed light on the nature of the relationship between Berlusconi and the businessman Gianpaolo Tarantini of Bari under investigation for corruption and conspiracy as part of an investigation into bribes and business against the healthcare system in Apulia.

November 2010 broke the so-called "Ruby case." The story rotates around the then underage Moroccan Karima El Mahroug known as Ruby Heartbreaker, arrested for theft in Milan in May 2010. Ascertainedthe young age of the girl the judge ordered the custody according to the normal procedures. However, after Berlusconi had telephoned the police station claiming that the girl was the niece of then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (fact later proved false), the girl was entrusted to the PDL regional councilor Nicole Minetti. Ruby declared
that she had been a guest several times of Berlusconi at his residence of Arcore getting money on such occasions. Believing that money would be compensation for sexual services, in January 2011, the public prosecutor in Milan has contested Berlusconi to the crimes of extortion and child prostitution. The story had a great outcry in the international media and has also sparked debate within the Italian public opinion. On

June 24, 2013 Berlusconi is sentenced in first instance to 7 years in prison for extortion and coercion for aiding and abetting in child prostitution and perpetual interdiction from public office, however, at the end of the appeal process, the decision of 18 July 2014, is acquitted for lack of disputed facts.

22 August 2013, the former boss of Cosa Nostra, Totò Riina in dialogue during air time with co-inmate Alberto Lorusso recorded by the cameras of the prison in Opera, makes several statements about Dell'Utri and Berlusconi, revealing the latter from the eighties was paying protection money to Cosa Nostra to get in
exchange for reciprocal favors and future, 250 million pounds every six months


According to two investigations of the Republic of 24 November 2009 the laws "that have produced beneficial effects for Berlusconi and his company" would have been 19.


Trials and allegations involving Silvio Berlusconi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_and_allegations_involving_Silvio_Berlusconi

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The socialist Craxi was the big spider in the web, he gave Silvio his start in construction in Milan, godfather to Silvío's first child.

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The collaborator of justice Girolamo Bruzzese during a deposition in Reggio Calabria mentioned the names of Silvio Berlusconi and Bettino Craxi claiming that he had "personally" witnessed a summit that took place in 1978-1979, shortly after the murder of Aldo Moro, "at the citrus grove of a certain Peppe Piccolo". A meeting, he added, where there were the leaders of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio and in particular of the Piana di Gioia Tauro.

“There was a certain excitement – ??said Bruzzese -. What I could understand was the arrival of some important person. I saw two very distinct people arrive who in that place, by the way they were dressed, attracted my attention. They both had the same overcoat and the same hat, the kind of hat American gangsters wear, like Borsalino. So they were dressed up, they were dressed up. Except that the taller one was Bettino Craxi, a person I had already seen and recognized. Peppe Piromalli goes to meet him. Going to meet the lowest subject he says these words: 'Silvio Berlusconi, how are you?'. Peppe Piromalli was practically already known with Silvio Berlusconi and Craxi was also introduced to him there ".

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In its 2010 ruling, the Palermo court said that it found no evidence of Marcello Dell’Utri’s mafia links after 1992, a ruling that helped Mr Berlusconi rebut longstanding allegations, made by some 40 mafia turncoats and his political rivals, that his entry into politics with Mr Dell’Utri in 1994 was abetted by Cosa Nostra.

Originally Posted by furio_from_naples


22 August 2013, the former boss of Cosa Nostra, Totò Riina in dialogue during air time with co-inmate Alberto Lorusso recorded by the cameras of the prison in Opera, makes several statements about Dell'Utri and Berlusconi, revealing the latter from the eighties was paying protection money to Cosa Nostra to get in exchange for reciprocal favors and future, 250 million pounds every six months



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Originally Posted by Hollander
The socialist Craxi was the big spider in the web, he gave Silvio his start in construction in Milan, godfather to Silvío's first child.

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The collaborator of justice Girolamo Bruzzese during a deposition in Reggio Calabria mentioned the names of Silvio Berlusconi and Bettino Craxi claiming that he had "personally" witnessed a summit that took place in 1978-1979, shortly after the murder of Aldo Moro, "at the citrus grove of a certain Peppe Piccolo". A meeting, he added, where there were the leaders of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio and in particular of the Piana di Gioia Tauro.

“There was a certain excitement – ??said Bruzzese -. What I could understand was the arrival of some important person. I saw two very distinct people arrive who in that place, by the way they were dressed, attracted my attention. They both had the same overcoat and the same hat, the kind of hat American gangsters wear, like Borsalino. So they were dressed up, they were dressed up. Except that the taller one was Bettino Craxi, a person I had already seen and recognized. Peppe Piromalli goes to meet him. Going to meet the lowest subject he says these words: 'Silvio Berlusconi, how are you?'. Peppe Piromalli was practically already known with Silvio Berlusconi and Craxi was also introduced to him there ".


^^^ this!!!! Thanks for this!


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And it's just the tip of the iceberg of the adventures of Il Cavaliere (The Knight).


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Originally Posted by Hollander
And it's just the tip of the iceberg of the adventures of Il Cavaliere (The Knight).


The hair on my two arms just went up after reading the "Il Cavaliere" statement Lol


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Btw H, pm me if you want some info regarding this situation.


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LOL. He was some playboy. There was no shame to his game...thats for sure.

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@NYMafia nicely said.

@H thanks for the vid.


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Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
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@NYMafia nicely said.

@H thanks for the vid.



Thank you TD. And thank you Hollander for these videos. They are very entertaining.

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Vittorio Mangano who worked most of his life for Berlusconi. Silvio never turned his back on him.
During the Maxi Trial in the mid-1980s the Mafia turncoats (pentiti), Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno, said Mangano was a "uomo d'onore" (man of honour) of Cosa Nostra and a member of the Porta Nuova family that was headed by Pippo Calò. Buscetta himself was a member of this family.

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Borsellino said that Mangano was the link between the Sicilian Mafia and its interests in Northern Italy. Later in 2008 Dell'Utri said Mangano was a great man who refused to say false things about Berlusconi.


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Originally Posted by Hollander
Vittorio Mangano who worked most of his life for Berlusconi. Silvio never turned his back on him.
During the Maxi Trial in the mid-1980s the Mafia turncoats (pentiti), Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno, said Mangano was a "uomo d'onore" (man of honour) of Cosa Nostra and a member of the Porta Nuova family that was headed by Pippo Calò. Buscetta himself was a member of this family.

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This is just another example of how deeply Cosa Nostra is ingrained in Italian life. From the President of Italy, on down, through the very core of their government, there are the Mafia's tentacles thoughout. Mangano was a "man of respect" no less. Could there be any greater example of the closeness and solidarity of Italy's upper and under world?

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Originally Posted by NYMafia

This is just another example of how deeply Cosa Nostra is ingrained in Italian life. From the President of Italy, on down, through the very core of their government, there are the Mafia's tentacles thoughout. Mangano was a "man of respect" no less. Could there be any greater example of the closeness and solidarity of Italy's upper and under world?


Any scandal involving members of P2 and mafia is closeness of the two worlds , Berlusconi was member himself. Don't forger Massimo Carminati "The last king of Rome", he is very interesting character that manages to avoid long prison term for 40 years, his first arrest was due to Magliana weapons that were stored in the basement of Italy’s health ministry, he was acquited, later he got arrested with some members of P2 and secret services(even general Pietro Musumeci,P2 member, who was a general and deputy director of Italy's military intelligence agency )for 1980 Bologna massacre that killed 85 people, they were trying to plant evidence, he was acquitted at appeal in 2000. Then in 2003 he was on trial for 1979 murder of Mino Pecorelli, the editor of political weekly who was also P2 member. He got acquitted for that too. Then in 2017 he got sentenced to 20 years for 'mafia capitale' case, later that was reduced to 14 years and six months,then sentence was revoked and he is free since 2020.


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And that same people are still in power today in Italy , D'Ali Jr was photographed meeting with mafia members in Sicily few years ago , his father was founder of Banco Sicula , largest private bank in Sicily , Matteo Messina Denaro started as armed guard for D'Ali family. D'Ali Jr is senator.


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Baiardo's request for arrest rejected, prosecutor of Florence: he facilitated Berlusconi and Dell'Utri

The meeting with Paolo Berlusconi
The Public Prosecutor's Office intended to arrest Baiardo, and although his appeal was rejected, they resubmitted the arrest request in the subsequent 50-page Review Appeal on June 5 last year. The motivation for this request is also based on the fact that Baiardo, according to the thesis of the prosecutors still to be verified, would have provided false and in any case vague information on the real reason for the meeting that took place on February 14, 2011 in the headquarters of 'Il Giornale' with Paolo Berlusconi. This meeting actually took place after Baiardo tried in vain to contact his brother Silvio, then Prime Minister, on the previous 3 February of the same year. For the prosecutors he would have lied "in order not to bring out the relationship between them and the Graviano brothers"

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...enze-agevolo-berlusconi-e-dell-utri.html


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The P2, the money given to Cosa Nostra and many other shadows: let's go easy on the beatification of Silvio Berlusconi

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An old photo of Silvio Berlusconi on his private plane with Marcello Dell'Utri. Credit: AGF
An old Greek adage, translated into Latin, reads: "De mortuis nihil nisi bonum", or "Speak well of the dead or keep silent". Here, for Silvio Berlusconi it is right to make an exception

by Enrico MingoriImage by the author
23 June 2023 at 07:40 - Updated 23 Jun. 2023 at 18:04
There are at least three crucial dates in the life of Silvio Berlusconi on which we haven't dwelt enough in recent weeks: three dates forgotten by the vast majority of the media and politicians who have ventured into analyzing who he was and what he represented for Italy this great entrepreneur became the longest-serving prime minister in our history.

An old Greek adage, translated into Latin, reads: «De mortuis nihil nisi bonum», or «Speak well of the dead or keep silent». Well, for Silvio Berlusconi it is right to make an exception in the name of truth and completeness of information.

White gloves
The first date that we need to go back to is January 26, 1978. That day, in Rome, in the very central and luxurious via Condotti, on the top floor of the building that houses the Bulgari jewelry store, inside a 400 square meter apartment , Berlusconi formally joins the clandestine Masonic lodge P2, an acronym for Propaganda 2.

Only three years later, by chance, following a police search as part of an investigation into the alleged kidnapping of the banker Michele Sindona, the Italians will discover the existence of this organization. The lists of members include the names of politicians, soldiers, officials of the secret services, magistrates, journalists, entrepreneurs.

The P2 will be dissolved by law in 1982, after a special parliamentary commission of inquiry, chaired by the Christian Democrat Tina Anselmi, will have concluded that it was a criminal association with subversive purposes: an octopus with tentacles that reached more or less everywhere and which, by influencing public decision-makers, aimed to implement its "Plan for democratic rebirth". Subsequent trials in the courts, however, will end in nothing.

That January 26, 1978 Berlusconi - who at the time was a 42-year-old entrepreneur active in real estate, publishing and telecommunications, and who a year ago was nominated Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Republic Giovanni Leone - receives the P2 card number 1816.

Some details of his affiliation rite were told in 2008, in an interview with L'Espresso and Pandora TV, by Licio Gelli, the great venerable master of the loggia, who was later to be definitively sentenced for various crimes, including the misdirection of the massacre at the Bologna station and the fraudulent bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano: «The via Condotti headquarters – recalls Gelli – was registered to a cover name because at the time we had six ministers and the domes of the secret services, justice and the press, and we certainly couldn't report the lodge. Berlusconi was given the sword ceremony. At the time of registration, two pairs of white gloves are given: one pair remains with the neophyte as a symbol of cleanliness, the other he must give to the woman of his heart ».

In 2000, the Knight – who has never even been investigated for joining the P2 – denied this reconstruction: «I've never been a piduist», he declared to Telelombardia, «they sent me the card and I immediately sent it back to the sender : however, the courts have established that the P2 members did not commit any crime, and therefore being a piduist is not a demerit».

According to the conclusions of the parliamentary commission headed by Anselmi, some members of the lodge, including Berlusconi himself is mentioned, found «support and financing beyond any creditworthiness» from «many of the banking institutes whose heads turned out to be characters included in the P2 lists".

Which only partially helps to shed light on the mysterious origin of the capitals from which the entrepreneurial rise of the builder of Milan 2 and Milan 3 began.

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What is certain is that Berlusconi in the early 1960s obtained a surety from Banca Rasini, of which his father Luigi was an important manager. The institute in question will be indicated in 1984 by Sindona as the main bank used by the mafia in Milan: among its account holders there were "godfathers" of the caliber of Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

The Knight, for his part, has always maintained that his social climbing began thanks to the liquidation of his father. When instead he was questioned by the magistrates on the matrix of some loans received by his Fininvest between 1975 and 1978 and coming from Swiss accounts, he made use of the option not to answer.

The pact of Milan
The second date not to be forgotten in the life of Silvio Berlusconi is between 16 and 29 May 1974. An unspecified day of those two weeks, in a building in Milan, a private meeting is held in which participants at least six people: the then owner of Edilnord, his collaborator Marcello Dell'Utri, the Cosa Nostra boss Stefano Bontade (head of the Santa Maria del Gesù family), the deputy mafia boss Girolamo Teresi (also of the Santa Maria del Gesù ), the "man of honour" Francesco Di Carlo (Altofonte family) and Gateano Cinà, linked to the Malaspina family.

The meeting was confirmed by several sources and was ascertained by the Court of Cassation in the sentence which in 2014 will definitively condemn Dell'Utri to seven years in prison for external competition in a mafia association.

Born in Palermo, Forza Italia parliamentarian between 1996 and 2013, Dell'Utri had met Berlusconi in the 1960s, when they were both studying law at the University of Milan, and in the early 1970s he had become his closest collaborator. But according to the Supreme Court he also acted as an intermediary between the entrepreneur and the Sicilian mafia.

In particular, the judges write, that meeting in Milan in May 1974 resulted in a "protection pact concluded by Berlusconi with Cosa Nostra thanks to the intermediation work of Dell'Utri".

Berlusconi will subsequently be investigated for these events, but his position will be archived, while for his collaborator from Palermo, as mentioned, a definitive sentence will be reached. The magistrates considered the builder's conduct criminally irrelevant because they essentially considered him as the victim of extortion.

In those years Berlusconi - who could already count on a substantial fortune - feared for his safety and that of his family. It was the season of kidnappings and Cosa Nostra, with that agreement, guaranteed him protection in exchange for "large sums of money" (about 200 million lire a year). Payments continued "throughout 1992". And the judges do not exclude that, over the years, the protection guaranteed by the mafiosi has extended to the TV antennas that Berlusconi had an interest in installing in Sicily.

A little more than a month after the infamous meeting in Milan, the entrepreneur hired Vittorio Mangano, affiliated with the Porta Nuova mafia family (which at the material time, however, had no Mafia convictions) as a collaborator in his villa in Arcore, where he remained at least until the end of 1974. According to the Cassation, Mangano's presence in Arcore "constituted the expression of the agreement concluded" with Cosa Nostra.

Bomb or no bomb
The third date to remember is the night between 26 and 27 May 1993, the night of the bomb planted by Cosa Nostra in via dei Georgofili in Florence, which killed five. Exactly two months later, on 27 July, another explosive attack by the mafia caused another five victims in Milan and in the same hours a third bomb was detonated in front of the basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, in Rome, without killing anyone.

Berlusconi and Dell'Utri have been investigated several times as alleged external instigators for the 1993 massacres, but have always been acquitted. However, after the statements made in 2020 to the magistrates by the boss Giuseppe Graviano about his alleged relations with the Cavaliere, the prosecutors of Florence have reopened the investigations.

Graviano - who was one of the directors of those massacres - reported having met Berlusconi several times between the 1980s and 1990s and also spoke of a phantom private agreement (never found) which allegedly documents a series of loans to the entrepreneur from from Sicily. The lawyers of the former prime minister, however, have always branded these statements as false and slanderous.

It should also be added that Graviano's ex factotum, Salvatore Baiardo, now a free man, told some journalists – only to later retract – that he was in possession of three photographs, dating back to 1992, which portray Berlusconi together with Graviano himself. Baiardo – whose reliability, like that of Graviano, remains to be proven – has been searched by the police in recent months, but those shots have not been found. By dying, Berlusconi left the Florentine prosecutor's register of suspects. However, the investigations into Dell'Utri continue.

Oversights
So, in summary: Berlusconi was affiliated with the P2, he gave money to Cosa Nostra for years and at the time of his death he was under investigation as the alleged external instigator of the 1993 massacres. Yet in recent weeks, in retracing the life of the Cavaliere di Arcore, the majority of commentators have not cited any of these facts, or have limited themselves to mentioning only a few and only incidentally, as if they were negligible passages in the life, so full, of a man who changed Italy and the Italians.

It is not so. Having had economic relations with the mafia, even if only indirect and criminally irrelevant, and having been part of a Masonic lodge considered by Parliament to be "subversive" - ??without forgetting the final conviction for tax fraud - is not normal for a senator of the Republic let alone a former Prime Minister who aspired to the Quirinale. It is not a question of being Berlusconi or anti-Berlusconi: simply, if these facts are not taken into account, the overall judgment on such a complex figure is crippled at the root.

ENRIQUE MINGORI
Parmigiano, born in 1985, graduated in Law. Journalist since 2005, publicist since 2009, professional since 2014.


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