Silvio Berlusconi attacked by Massimilano Tartaglia
MILAN – “it’s ’suddenly sprouted a hand clutching a statuette. Then the violent blow to the face, on the right side, which has split his lip. ” said Doriano Riparbelli, head of the regional organization of the PDL, which was next to Silvio Berlusconi when -on Piazza Duomo- was attacked by a stranger then stopped and identified. These Massimilano Tartaglia, 42 years and receiving treatment from a dozen years for mental problems. “It ‘all happened in seconds,” says Riparbelli capacity that is not even what he has seen that scene in a few moments in the frames of some of TV has been around the world.
According to the reconstruction of those who organized the rally, the prime minister, left the stage and just before getting on the car, was stopped by one of his supporters who handed him some photos. After that the man turning to the premier: “Wait Silvio, I give you my business card.” Then other sympathizers. All shouting “Silvio, Silvio” and present to try to shake his hand. “He moved a little – continues Riparbelli – and suddenly came an arm and a hand clutching a statuette of the cathedral. He shot in the face, the right side.” Berlusconi is bent legs, but in a flash his bodyguard intervened to support and develop the car. “When I was inside and was dabbing his face with a handkerchief – continues the exponent of the PDL – has opened the door and back out of the car, probably, is my feeling, to go to the man, the His attacker, and ask no bitterness because of his gesture, because he has done. ” But his body guard advised him to return. Then the race at the San Raffaele. it’ s come lying on a stretcher “conscious” with an ice bag on his face.
Was immediately treated and, as he decided his personal physician, Prof. Albert Zangrilli, underwent a CAT scan: it has suffered a “significant blunt trauma to the massive facial – reported by the hospital – with internal and external wound the upper lip. Two teeth, one of them seriously, are fractured. And then the diagnostic tests revealed a small fracture to his nose. the prognosis is 20 days. Although it appeared shocked and disheartened “is responding with his usual temper,” have made it known doctors. And indeed, as he was led out of the emergency room he shook hands with one of his staff.
“I’m fine, I’m fine,” he exclaimed. Then began visiting: his children, Marina, accompanied by her husband, Piersilvio, Barbara with her boyfriend and Eleanor. And again Adriano Galliani, Emilio Fede, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, the tourism Vittoria Brambilla and of Culture Sandro Bondi, the Under Secretary Paul Bonaiuto and the President of the Province of Milan, Guido Podestà. So, in addition to his sons, a political comings and goings of friends and very close to him to express the warmth of their affection and their solidarity.
