Posted on 12/13/2009 3:25:56 PM PST by Steelfish
Berlusconi Bloodied By Hurled Statuette Italian PM suffers broken nose, 2 broken teeth after attack at rally in Milan
STRINGER/ITALY / Reuters Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi leaves Milan's Duomo Square with blood on his face after being attacked at a political rally on Sunday. View related photos
Video [Bloody Video] Berlusconi's face bloodied
Dec. 13: An attacker hurls a statuette at Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, striking the leader in the face. Watch the raw video.
Dec. 13: An attacker hurls a statuette at Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, striking the leader in the face. Watch the raw video.
ROME - An attacker hurled a statuette at Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, striking the leader in the face at the end of a rally on Sunday and leaving the stunned 73-year-old leader with a broken nose and bloodied mouth, authorities said.
Police said the 42-year-old man accused of attacking Berlusconi as he signed autographs in Milan was immediately taken into custody. The Italian leader was rushed to a hospital where he was being held overnight.
The attack occurred at a time when Berlusconi, one of Italy's wealthiest men, is embroiled in a sex scandal, a divorce case with his wife and public protests demanding his resignation.
TV showed the stunned leader with blood under his nose, on his mouth and under one eye as he was lifted to his feet by aides after Sunday's attack. He was hustled into the back of a car, but he immediately got out, apparently to show he was not badly injured.
But Berlusconi suffered a "small fracture" of the nose, two broken teeth and an injury to the inside and outside of his lip, said Paolo Klun, chief spokesman for Milan's San Raffaele Hospital.
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On another thread on this matter a poster asked if we thought it was a Leftist.
My response would be OF COURSE IT WAS A DAMNED LEFTIST!!!
The Left is comprised of irrational adolescents, sycophant useful idiots that could not leave the teat.
Berlusconi represents maturity, something the Left cannot understand much less deal with.
A cowardly act.
A statuette of what?
Then I noticed the report was from AP.
I wonder if it is a damn mus-slime.
The man’s a slimy, sleazy, corrupt philanderer who puts me in mind of the right’s answer to Bill Clinton, but nothing excuses this type of savage attack.
Leftists are applauding this act.
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