The 29 defendants in the Milanese trial in the Ruby ter case were all acquitted , some acquitted by statute of limitations for minor positions.

This was decided by the judges of the seventh criminal section of the Milan court, after a closed session that lasted about two hours.

In addition to Silvio Berlusconi, who was accused of corruption in judicial documents , the acquittals, always with the formula "because the fact does not exist", concerned among others Karima el Mahroug and the 20 young former guests of the evenings in the Arcore villa of the 'former prime minister.

The Public Prosecutor's Office had asked for the Forza Italia leader to be sentenced to six years' imprisonment and confiscate around 10 million euros.

«It is an acquittal with the broadest and fullest possible formula, I can only be enormously satisfied, three out of three!", commented the lawyer Federico Cecconi, also referring to the previous acquittals for the two strands in Siena and Rome .

"Ruby was all an invention, my name remains Karima and now it's a nightmare", these were the first words of Karima el Mahroug after reading the sentence.

(Unioneonline/F)

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