Berlusconi gets beat up, video, teeth and nose broken

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/14/berlusconi.milan/index.html

Rome, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will remain in the hospital at least "another 36 hours," his doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, said Monday, following an attack that broke his teeth and fractured his nose.

Berlusconi, 73, is receiving antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication and painkillers, the doctor said.

The man accused of hitting the controversial prime minister in the face with a replica of Milan's cathedral was charged with grievous bodily harm and held overnight, Milan police said.

Massimo Tartaglia was kept in Milan's San Vittore prison, authorities said. Under Italian law, police can hold him for up to 48 hours without a judge's order.

Anti-terrorist prosecutor Armanda Spataro has been assigned to investigate the assault, police said.

The attack at a campaign rally Sunday in Milan left Berlusconi bleeding profusely from his left upper lip and cheek. He underwent a CAT scan at Milan's San Raffaele Hospital, and his personal physician, Alberto Sangrillon, recommended more tests be done, Berlusconi spokesman Paolo Buonaiuti told CNN.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. An awful thing to do. This man has to do time.

(That said, I find myself strangely unable to harbor ill feelings towards him. Odd.)

[Bicoastal]

2. I hope everyone here realizes how childishly counterproductive this sort of thing is...

...now the guy has a wave of sympathy flowing his way, and his foes look like a bunch of neanderthals. Nice going.

[Voltaire]

3. Be that as it may

He deserved it as do others of his ilk. Perhaps if more of that sort of thing went on they would act like humans instead of the parasites that they are.

[Fridays Child]

5. Yes, because violence has a stellar history of solving so many problems.

:eyes:

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. The way things have been going for him, Berlusconi probably paid

the guy to do it.

[Lance_Boyle]

4. this thread = useless without pictures. n/t