The "screenshots" of the young former guests of the Arcore evenings, gathered in a chat since September 2014 and in which they talked about pressing to ask for money from Berlusconi, have no "value" for the crime of corruption in judicial acts , but "they can at best and worst "to be considered an attempt at" blackmail "against the former prime minister" offended party " , who by the prosecutors" never wanted to be investigated ".
The lawyer Federico Cecconi , who defends the Forza Italia leader in the Ruby Ter trial, stated this in his harangue to the court of Milan, explaining that "there was an unacceptable in ethical and probably relevant form of criminal law. advantage "against the Knight.
For this, added Cecconi, Berlusconi "must be acquitted of the accusation of corruption in judicial acts" with the formula "because the fact does not exist".
The lawyer explained that Berlusconi was a sort of "offended party" of extortion attempts by some of the so-called "olgettine", that is the girls who participated in the evenings in the villa of Arcore, ended up in the crosshairs of the judiciary in the main investigation with the young Karima El Marough at the center.
At the end of 2013, the defense clarified, "some requests emerge related to the threat, otherwise, to make statements to the press" and then, after the filing of the reasons for the Ruby bis sentence, "threats on going to in front of magistrates or investigators ". Never even in the so-called "War files", or in the documents in general, "is there a reference to illicit agreements" with Berlusconi. Furthermore, underlined Cecconi, the Italian leader already in October 2012 in the spontaneous declarations in the Ruby trial had said that he had helped the girls in difficulty for the "life and career ruined by the media impact" of the affair.
(Unioneonline / lf)