THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Italy's Silvio Berlusconi launched a public attack on Thursday on the country's judges, accusing them of being out to "destroy" him after prosecutors called for the tycoon to be jailed for bribery.
"It's judicial persecution, an endless attempt to smear me, which has turned the court into a special court which aims to take Berlusconi out of politics and destroy him as a person," the media magnate told Italy's Channel 5 television.
Berlusconi's legal woes returned to haunt him on Wednesday when prosecutors asked he be sentenced to five years in prison for paying his former tax lawyer David Mills 450,000 euros to provide false testimony in the 1990s.
He has denied the charges and accuses prosecutors of a plot against him. » | AFP | Thursday, February 16, 2012
