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Berlusconi hospitalized after assault of an unbalanced

Berlusconi, 73, who did not lose consciousness but whose photographs show her face swollen and covered in blood, 24 hours must remain hospitalized for observation.

“I”m fine, I”m well, “Berlusconi said after leaving the emergency room to be taken to a hospital room, according to sources cited by local media.

” You could see the president reacted with shock but usual temperament, “said communications director for the San Raffaele hospital, who said Berlusconi suffered” contusions on his face, with internal and external wound on the upper lip and two broken teeth. Cavaliere radiography also showed a small fracture of the nose.

Images broadcast continuously on TV Sky TG-24 briefing at the head of the government are inclined, with a scarf mouth, and quickly moved to his car by his bodyguards.

Man arrested, Massimo Tartaglia, 42, was taken to police headquarters. In the video, appears stunned while the police took him away, protecting you from an angry mob. According to local press, is being treated for mental problems ten years.

Tartaglia was charged with causing injury by premeditated attacking Berlusconi with a miniature replica of the Dome Milan, a souvenir for tourists with a metal socket.

The assault occurred at the conclusion of a meeting of the People”s Party of Freedom (PDL) in which Silvio Berlusconi was booed and whistled by a group of a dozen people who called him a “clown”.

The prime minister said and repeated several times that they should be ashamed.

The group then clashed with the youth of the security service act, which prompted the intervention of the police.

President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, “strongly condemned this serious act of aggression “.

” It”s an indescribable gesture that I strongly condemn, “reacted Pier Luigi Bersani, the leader of the Democratic Party (PD, the main opposition party).

According to Culture Minister Sandro Bondi, the attack on Berlusconi is the result of a “long hate campaign” against the head of government run by “some sectors of politics and media .

“It is an act of terrorism,” he said on his part one of his key allies, Umberto Bossi, leader of the populist Northern League.

During the meeting, Berlusconi criticized the left-sowing “hatred and envy” and it accused of attacking the government through the press.

” State television, with the money you all, attacks the government and most, is the only television in the world does, “he threw the head of government despite the leaders of the two main channels are close Rai right.

He also criticized vehemently “politicized judges.

Berlusconi suffered another similar attack several years ago in Rome. A young man then threw a camera tripaeeod photography with which he opened his head.