Subject: Ancap Good News: Berlusconi the statist, bitch-slapped Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:04 pm
Silvio Berlusconi is hospitalized tonight after being hit in the face and falling to the ground following a speech in Milan. The Italian PM has two broken teeth and a cut on his lip, and the alleged assailant is under arrest. The man, who reportedly has a history of mental problems, struck the 73-year-old politician with a heavy souvenir statuette, the BBC reports.
Subject: Re: Ancap Good News: Berlusconi the statist, bitch-slapped Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:20 pm
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Meanwhile questions are growing about how Massimo Tartaglia, a 42-year-old electronics engineer with no previous criminal record, was able get close enough to Mr Berlusconi to hit him full in the face.
Mr Berlusconi, 73, has one hundred bodyguards, some from the police, paratroops and special forces and others from his own company Fininvest. He travels in a bullet-proof Audi A8 with a convoy of SUVs and armoured Volkswagen and Chevrolet people carriers, with guards armed with automatic weapons. He is guarded in crowds by four of the security agents, who form a tight inner ring around him, with a further six forming a second ring. Photographs taken by paparazzi of semi-naked guests during parties at his Sardinian villa show marksmen stationed on the roof and villa perimeter.
Commentators have today pointed to "basic errors" leading to a double failure in the security arrangements...