Our ally, Berlusconi, orders prosecutors to seize embarrassing photos of him at party

[ck4829]

Italian prosecutors Saturday ordered the seizure of several hundred photographs, whose publication Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is trying to block, taken at his Sardinia villa and reportedly featuring topless young women.

The move came after Berlusconi's lawyer Niccolo Ghedini filed a complaint against a photographer who took some 700 snaps of private parties at the Italian leader's home, the domestic ANSA news agency reported.

The photographer, Antonello Zappadu, will also be charged in a separate case of fraud for trying to sell the snaps, which Berlusconi says violate his privacy, to two celebrity magazines.

Berlusconi wrote three days ago to the Italian data protection agency asking it to stop publication of the photos taken at the Villa de Porto Rotondo, the newspapers La Stampa and Il Corriere della Serra said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090530/wl_afp/italypoliticsberlusconipeople_20090530111229

[RagAss]

1. Silvio.........you Gavone !

[Pirate Smile]

2. You say "our ally" like we are responsible for what the dumbass does.

We also don't need to turn every fool into our "enemy" either.

Here's an idea - he is responsible for what he does and that's it.

[ck4829]

3. I just think it's noteworthy. We aren't responsible for what he does.

The United States government considers this criminal to be their friend.

[anonymous171]

7. lol in international politics you will never find a national leader who isn't a criminal in one way

or the other.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. Does your brush also paint the current POTUS?

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Nice piece of work.

Berlusconi is the CEO of Italia S.p.A.

People who want to see 'the country run like a company' are really jonesing for an American Berlusconi. What he's done is simply run Italy the way a CEO runs a megafirm, with the citizen transformed into an employee.

[PassingFair]

5. This nutbar thinks he's Caligula...

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Berlusconi is not our alley

He was an alley of the Bush Regime, which no longer exists.

[Octafish]

8. Berlusconi's a fascist pervert turd, friend of the BFEE.

He's a real swell, in the P-2 sense of the word.

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From what I've read, the pics show the guy lusting for teen beauty.
Nice fantasy for most every old man.
For details, see "Divorce, Italian Style."

[kenny blankenship]

9. Damn! It's good to be the King (of P2)

It would be too bad if those photos were to get loose on the intertoobs.

[Arkana]

11. Godfuckingdamnit.

I never thought there'd be anything on earth that could make me ashamed to be Italian, but this guy's done it. What a fucking tool.

[Stevenmarc]

12. Fuggedaboutit