Protester attacks Berlusconi at Milan rally

gimmesometruth27
gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,835
edited December 2009 in A Moving Train
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.
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  • NoK
    NoK Posts: 824
    Hopefully we wont have to hear him speak for a while.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    heh just saw a picture. dude's face is in bad shape.
  • Ok
    Ok Posts: 2,146
    saw the video on NBC news this evening. Guy got jacked. I'm not sure that this sort of violence actually proves any sort of point (I actually don't), but the look of shock on Berlusconi's face was priceless.
  • sliver
    sliver Posts: 74
    it seems the "attacker" has mental problems
    Faithful, to you
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    sliver wrote:
    it seems the "attacker" has mental problems
    as always..attacking is not the solution
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    NoK wrote:
    Hopefully we wont have to hear him speak for a while.
    :lol::lol: but he can use other part of his body :lol::lol:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • even flow - question mark
    even flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    And we laughed and laughed on the board when the Republicans shut down a 10 mile square radius in NYC. Sheesh!

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    so be it
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    this my friends is a little of what Chalmers Johnson refers to as "blowback". At a certain point, sending people to die in a war, disreguard for racism and abuse, sexism, homophobia, turning ones back on the workers, the poor, the soldiers, at a certain point, those actions have consequences. And for anyone to expect leniancy whether thats Burlusconi, Bush or Obama, is like trying to catch the wind. you reap what you sow. If you perpetuate a culture of violence through sending kids off to die in some godforsaken land, then you must deal with the blowback.

    As I said, so be it
  • toodee
    toodee Posts: 89
    even flow - question mark wrote:
    And we laughed and laughed on the board when the Republicans shut down a 10 mile square radius in NYC. Sheesh!

    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. :lol:

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