The daughter of three-time premier
Silvio Berlusconi says her father's legal travails are on par
with the Inquisition.
"All that's happened to my father in all these years is
anomalous, from the Inquisition," said Barbara Berlusconi in an
interview with the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair published
Tuesday.
"From the legal point of view, we've gone back to the
Middle Ages, when you didn't judge a person for breaking the law
but for how he behaved at home".
Barbara, 29, a CEO of his AC Milan soccer club, has long
defended her father with other family members against what they
claim to be a witch-hunt orchestrated by allegedly leftist
judges over the course of his 20-year career at the head of
Italian center-right politics.
Most recently, A Milan court last week ruled the media
magnate could serve the remainder of his four-year sentence for
a 370-million-euro tax fraud by doing a half-hour a week of
community service at a senior center, as long as he desists from
insulting the judiciary.
In addition, the 77-year-old is appealing convictions for
paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of office,
which carried a lifetime ban from office; and has been indicted
for allegedly bribing a Senator to change political sides.
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