Protester attacks Berlusconi at Milan rally
gimmesometruth27
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this is pretty scary. first benezir bhutto now berlusconi. it just goes to show how easily it could have been bush, obama, or palin at a political rally....security can't prevent everything and if someone wants to get to a leader bad enough they will....this dude had no criminal record so he was on no sort of watch list or anything...kind of puts things into perspective...
Protester attacks Berlusconi at Milan rally
Italian PM's face bloodied after being struck by man holding small statue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34404732/ns ... ws-europe/
ROME - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was punched in the face at the end of a rally on Sunday by a man holding a small statue in his hand, leaving the 73-year-old media mogul with a bloodied mouth and looking stunned, police said.
The 42-year-old man accused of attacking Berlusconi in Milan as he signed autographs was immediately taken into custody.
TV showed the stunned leader with blood under his nose, on his mouth and under one eye being lifted to his feet by aides after the attack. Berlusconi was hustled into the back of a car, but he immediately got out, apparently in an effort to show he was not badly injured.
After looking out into the crowd, the premier, without saying a word, was pulled back into the vehicle.
The attack occurred after Berlusconi had just finished delivering a long, vigorous speech at the rally to a crowd of applauding supporters from his Freedom People party at about 6:30 p.m.
To stay in hospital overnight
Officials at Milan's police headquarters, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said the premier was conscious and apparently not badly injured. They said the attacker was wielding a miniature statue of Milan's Duomo, the city's gargoyled cathedral and symbol, but couldn't say what the souvenir was made of.
Berlusconi's spokesman, speaking by telephone from the emergency room from San Raffaele hospital where the premier was taken, told Sky TG24 TV that doctors had decided to keep the premier in the hospital overnight for observation.
"We'll see what the doctors say tomorrow morning," spokesman Paolo Bonauiti told Sky.
The exams of his jaw area included a CT scan, Bonaiuti said.
Police identified the man they were questioning as Massimo Tartaglia, 42. They said Tartaglia didn't have any criminal record.
Protester attacks Berlusconi at Milan rally
Italian PM's face bloodied after being struck by man holding small statue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34404732/ns ... ws-europe/
ROME - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was punched in the face at the end of a rally on Sunday by a man holding a small statue in his hand, leaving the 73-year-old media mogul with a bloodied mouth and looking stunned, police said.
The 42-year-old man accused of attacking Berlusconi in Milan as he signed autographs was immediately taken into custody.
TV showed the stunned leader with blood under his nose, on his mouth and under one eye being lifted to his feet by aides after the attack. Berlusconi was hustled into the back of a car, but he immediately got out, apparently in an effort to show he was not badly injured.
After looking out into the crowd, the premier, without saying a word, was pulled back into the vehicle.
The attack occurred after Berlusconi had just finished delivering a long, vigorous speech at the rally to a crowd of applauding supporters from his Freedom People party at about 6:30 p.m.
To stay in hospital overnight
Officials at Milan's police headquarters, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said the premier was conscious and apparently not badly injured. They said the attacker was wielding a miniature statue of Milan's Duomo, the city's gargoyled cathedral and symbol, but couldn't say what the souvenir was made of.
Berlusconi's spokesman, speaking by telephone from the emergency room from San Raffaele hospital where the premier was taken, told Sky TG24 TV that doctors had decided to keep the premier in the hospital overnight for observation.
"We'll see what the doctors say tomorrow morning," spokesman Paolo Bonauiti told Sky.
The exams of his jaw area included a CT scan, Bonaiuti said.
Police identified the man they were questioning as Massimo Tartaglia, 42. They said Tartaglia didn't have any criminal record.
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The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
As I said, so be it
I used to laugh whenever Bush/Clinton/Bush Snr etc had entire cities closed down for security reasons as well, but I always knew American Presidents did this for a reason; America has managed to assassinate four (um, please correct me if that number is wrong :thumbup: ) of it's presidents.
Meanwhile, Italy hasn't killed a leader since Benito Mussolini, which is why Berlusconi felt free, and possibly still feels free, to walk around Milan with minimal secuity.
That, and the fact he is an arrogant wanker.