THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Silvio Berlusconi faces an investigation by Italian MPs after officials expressed fears that the Italian prime minister’s alleged patronage of prostitutes had put national security at risk.Mr Belusconi, 74, has been summoned to appear before a parliamentary security committee to “clarify” his security arrangements following the latest allegations about his private life. The secret services were reported to have told members of the committee that Mr Berlusconi’s lifestyle and his relations with escorts and starlets could endanger national security.
Massimo D’Alema, the president of the committee and a former Left-wing prime minister, said: “The secret services are entrusted with the security of the prime minister and we intend to return to this theme and consider it correct to hear what the prime minister has to say on the matter.”
Mr D’Alema said he felt sympathy for police who were “weary” of escorting young women in and out of Mr Berlusconi’s residences in Rome, Milan and Sardinia. The Italian leader was accused last week of instructing police in Milan to drop theft charges against a teenage Moroccan belly dancer who had attended one of his parties and of paying a prostitute, Nadia Macri’, €10,000 for intercourse at his villas in Sardinia and Milan. He has not denied either accusation. >>> Nick Squires, Rome | Thursday, November 04, 2010
