Grande surpresa
Sílvio Berlusconi condenado a 7 anos de pildra por ter adormecido com uma menor: a heartstealer: a deusa imigrante de origem marroquina -- Karima El Mahroug - the night-club dancer whose stage name is Ruby Rubacuori, or Ruby Heartstealer -- faz cair de joelhos o homem mais santinho do mundo. Também não era preciso muito para tentar o Silvinho. A miúda devia ser mesmo terrível! Agora já cresceu mais, aprendeu muito, sobretudo em gestão da conta bancária dela.
Pelo que o Cartesio sabe, a miúda nunca acusou o Sílvio e sempre negou que o homem tivesse adormecido com ela. Claro que não! Ninguém adormece ao lado de uma bomba! lol Assim vai o mundo.
A Justiça queria apanhar o Sílvio e aquilo era só uma questão de tempo, porque o Silvinho é terrível, fazia muitas. Ele tem mais casos pendentes por evasão fiscal. Ele tem o mérito de ter escapado às malhas da Lei até esta data. Tem praticamente andado à revelia há décadas! O homem parece que só tem igual os emperadores romanos! Ao fim e ao cabo, o Sílvio era um emperador dos tempos modernos.
Ele tem quase 80 anos. Certamente que irá utilizar todos os recursos possíveis na Relação, e até escapar às grades. Isto ainda não é o fim do Império Sílvium Berlusconum. Valha-nos Deus!
24 June 2013 Last updated at 16:40
Italian ex-PM Berlusconi sentenced in sex case
Italy's former PM Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of having sex with an underage prostitute, and abusing the power of his office.
He has been sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public office, pending the outcome of an appeal.
The 76-year-old media tycoon had denied all the allegations against him.
Mr Berlusconi is already embroiled in several other court cases and was given a four-year sentence for tax fraud in October 2012.
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Karima El Mahroug is seen here at a disco photocall in Milan in November 2010
Profile: Karima El Mahroug
Karima El Mahroug is seen here at a disco photocall in Milan in November 2010
She may be only 20, but by her own admission, the woman at the centre of the sex scandal engulfing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has not been shielded from the darker sides of life.
Karima El Mahroug - the night-club dancer whose stage name is Ruby Rubacuori, or Ruby Heartstealer - says as a child, she was a victim of rape and abuse.
She has been in and out of care since running away from home at - reports say - either 12 or 14 years old.
The transcripts of tapped telephone conversations quoted in Italian media suggest she began her acquaintance with Mr Berlusconi when she was just 16 years old.
But Ms Mahroug has sought to draw a distinction between her treatment by men in general and her treatment by Mr Berlusconi.
"It is the first time in my life that a man has not tried to take me to bed. He behaved like a father, I swear," she told Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
She denies any sexual relationship with Mr Berlusconi, saying he was just a lonely man who paid to be in the company of young women.
Runaway
Karima El Mahroug reportedly arrived in Italy with her family from Morocco in 2003, settling in the eastern Sicilian coastal town of Letojanni.
Her childhood was a difficult one, she said in an interview on one of the TV channels owned by Mr Berlusconi.
"When I was nine years old, I was raped by two of my uncles - my father's brothers," she was quoted as saying.
"The only person who I dared to talk to about what happened, my mother, said, 'Keep quiet, because if your dad finds out you're not a virgin, he'll kill you,'" she said.
After she was raped, she said she invented a "parallel world" to block out the memories.
"I told my schoolmates I had a marvellous family, and I pretended I was Wonderwoman."
But at 12, her Muslim father threw a pan of boiling oil over her after she said she wanted to become a Catholic, Ms Mahroug claimed.
Other reports suggest she was known in the local town for her fiery character and for being a petty thief.
She ran away, stealing a woman's handbag before being found by police and sent to a series of care homes.
'Buying affection'
Later, Ms Mahroug became a belly dancer but denied ever working as a prostitute. "I tried but I didn't succeed. Like my mother told me, you're born a hooker, you don't become one."
She is said to have met Mr Berlusconi after one of his friends spotted her in a nightclub - the introduction arranged by Nicole Minetti, the prime minister's former dental hygienist who is alleged to have procured women for his parties - and admits spending nights at his residence.
Their relationship came to light after Ms Mahroug was arrested by Milan police on a charge of theft but was released - controversially handed over to Ms Minetti rather than put into care - after a phone call from the prime minister's office.
Mr Berlusconi stands by the claim made to police at the time that he believed she was a relative of the Egyptian president and demanded her freedom to avoid a diplomatic incident.
Mr Berlusconi claims he gave money, gifts and help to Ms Mahroug out of pity, while she also denies any sexual aspect of their relationship.
In another interview, she said he staved off loneliness by buying affection - something she said she could relate to, as she often sent money to her estranged father.
"He is alone and fights loneliness, a bit like I do," Ms Mahroug reportedly said. "I pay to get my father's affection; he pays for young women."
But later, at a separate trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused of procurement, she said she had lied to investigators about receiving 187,000 euros (£160,000; $250,000) from Mr Berlusconi for attending several of his parties.
At that trial in May, she also said she had invented details about erotic parties held at Mr Berlusconi's villa while he was still prime minister.
Ms Mahroug initially turned her role in the scandal to her advantage, appearing in lucrative TV interviews, in an advert and by making special appearances in nightclubs around Italy.
She is now a mother and reportedly married.
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24 June 2013 Last updated at 17:56
Both Silvio Berlusconi and Karima El Mahroug deny they had sex
Italian ex-PM Berlusconi sentenced in Ruby sex case
Both Silvio Berlusconi and Karima El Mahroug deny they had sex
Italy's former PM Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public office for having sex with an underage prostitute.
The Milan court ruling is not effective until several appeals have been heard.
Both the 76-year-old media tycoon and the Moroccan woman concerned, Karima El Mahroug, had denied the claims.
Mr Berlusconi is already embroiled in several other court cases. In October 2012 he was given a four-year sentence for tax fraud, also under appeal.
In the latest ruling he was convicted of paying for sex with Ms El Mahroug, known as "Ruby the Heart Stealer", in 2010, even though she was just 17 at the time.
Although frequenting prostitutes is not a crime in Italy, having sex with one who is under the age of 18 is an offence punishable by a prison sentence.
He was also found guilty of abusing his prime ministerial powers, by arranging to have her released from police custody when she was detained in a separate petty theft case.
Ms El Mahroug was one of a group of women invited to Mr Berlusconi's private residence for so-called "bunga-bunga" party evenings.
The prosecution said these women were part of a prostitution system set up for his personal sexual satisfaction.
'Beyond reality'
The judges sentenced Mr Berlusconi to seven years in jail - one year more than the six-year term demanded by the prosecution.
As soon as he heard the verdict, Mr Berlusconi's lawyer Niccolo Ghedini announced an appeal.
"This is beyond reality," Mr Ghedini told reporters outside the court. "The judges even went beyond the prosecutors' request."
The judgement could have major political repercussions for Italy, analysts say.
They say a guilty ruling could weaken current Prime Minister Enrico Letta's coalition government, which depends on the support of Mr Berlusconi's centre-right party, People of Freedom (PdL).
But Mr Berlusconi will not have to spend any time in jail unless a lengthy appeals process is exhausted.
Even then, he may escape prison because of lenient sentencing rules for people over the age of 70.
Mr Berlusconi has previously accused the prosecution of waging a politicised campaign against him.
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