The decision to submit him to an "unlimited psychiatric examination" is "detrimental to my history and my integrity". For this the process must go on without him.
Silvio Berlusconi writes it in a letter addressed to the Milan judges on the Ruby ter case, in which the former Cav is accused of corruption in judicial acts with 28 other people, including many "olgettines" also accused of perjury. Days ago, the college ordered the medical examiner's report after Berlusconi had made another instance of legitimate impediment for health reasons. Yesterday the assignment was awarded to a board of experts.
"I cannot accept this decision", says the Cav in the declaration filed today through his lawyers to the president of the college of the seventh criminal Marco Tremolada, because it is "beyond all logic" and "completely incongruous with respect to my history and my present ".
"The hypothesis - he continues - demonstrates, for what I have done in my life in many sectors including entrepreneurship, sport and politics, an evident prejudice towards me and makes me understand well what the final outcome of this unfair trial ". "I cannot therefore accept - explains the leader of FI - this decision, which is detrimental to my history and my integrity. Therefore, in my absence, we proceed to the celebration of a process, which should not even have begun, in the knowledge that even afterwards the absolute correctness of my behavior will be recognized and I will be acquitted of all charges ".
The Prosecutor, he concludes, "during the hearing on September 8, with tones and ways that are truly unacceptable to me and the doctors who have visited me for many times, asked to disregard" the conclusions of the defense's medical reports, which in the hearing at the end of May they had led to a long postponement of the trial, and "to proceed further".
EXAMINATION CANCELED - Following these declarations, the forensic examination will no longer be carried out. The former premier said that the trial can go on in his absence and therefore the conditions for which the judges of the seventh criminal had decided it have failed, namely the legitimate impediment presented on 8 September. Now the college will have to set a new hearing to go ahead with the trial.
(Unioneonline / D)
