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Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets
View(s):MILAN (Reuters) – The prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of threats, including one with two bullets, Milan’s chief prosecutor said on Thursday.
Prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial Ilda Boccassini (Reuters)
The letters against Ilda Boccassini have become more frequent since she requested a six-year jail sentence and a lifetime ban on holding public office for Berlusconi, Edmondo Bruti Liberati said.
“In the last few weeks there has been a crescendo of anonymous letters containing serious threats against Boccassini, including one yesterday containing two bullets,” Bruti Liberati said in a statement.
People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wipes his forehead as he attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome (Reuters)
On May 13, Boccassini requested the jail sentence and public office ban for Berlusconi, who is charged with paying for sex with a Moroccan night-club dancer when she was a minor and abusing his office to have her released from police custody.
In a six-hour-long closing argument, Boccassini said the so-called “bunga bunga” parties at villa of the 76-year old billionaire media tycoon involved a “system of organized prostitution.” Berlusconi has denied the charges.
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