Ruby Ter, Silvio Berlusconi acquitted in Siena because "the fact does not exist"

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October 21, 2021 Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted by the Court of Siena because the fact does not exist. The former Prime Minister, in the Sienese tranche of the Ruby Ter trial, had to answer for the accusation of corruption in judicial acts. The pianist of the parties in Arcore, Danilo Mariani, was also acquitted with the same formula, and he too was charged with the crime of corruption in judicial acts.

"I heard from President Berlusconi a little while ago and he is very relieved, satisfied and happy". Thus at the end of the hearing that acquitted the former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, the lawyer Federico Cecconi, lawyer of the Cavaliere defense pool.

The prosecutor claimed that the Forza Italia leader had paid Mariani to induce false testimony about "elegant dinners" in Arcore. The prosecutor Valentina Magnini had asked for a sentence of 4 years of imprisonment for both defendants.This morning, at the resumption of the trial, the defense of the former premier, represented by the lawyers Federico Cecconi, Enrico De Martino and Lorenzo De Martino, had asked the partial renewal of the trial, also asking to hear three new texts: the accountant of Berlusconi Giuseppe Spinelli, the musician Mariano Apicella and Mariani's wife, Simonetta Losi. Even the defense of Mariani, the lawyers Salvatore Pino and Lucia Zoi, had joined the request for partial renewal of the investigation.The prosecutor objected and asked for the trial to be discussed. The sentence was pronounced by the president of the college, Simone Spina, after a one-hour council chamber.

"Berlusconi acquitted in Siena in the Ruby Ter trial because the fact does not exist. Those who know him have never doubted his innocence. How much mud before getting to the truth." Antonio Tajani, national coordinator of Forza Italia, writes on Twitter.

Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni phoned Silvio Berlusconi after the acquittal in the trial of Ruby ter in Siena. This is what Forza Italia sources confirm. 

"The acquittal of President Berlusconi because 'the fact does not exist', as established by the Court of Siena, is an enormous joy and, above all, the right outcome of a story that, as this sentence shows, should not have been due it is now clear that this trial had no reason to exist and I hope that the decision of the magistrates will induce all those who have instrumentally ridden this judicial matter for political purposes to entrench themselves in a shameful, but at least opportune, silence. ".

Thus, in a note, the vice president of the Forza Italia group in the Senate, Licia Ronzulli.