Comment: Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mafia ties are becoming more visible. A member of the fascist P‑2 lodge, Berlusconi has “more connections than a switchboard.” Successor to Mussolini’s fascisti, the P‑2 has been a major focal point of these broadcasts for decades. (Berlusconi is pictured at right.)
Berlusconi and his Italian fascist milieu also have intimate ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Al Taqwa complex. Youssef Nada’s lawyer Pier Felici Barchihandled the Swiss investments for Berlusconi.
HE billionaire Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, once met a leading mafia godfather to ask for protection, according to testimony gathered over several years by crime prosecutors.
Mafia informants claim the meeting took place in Milan in 1974, when Berlusconi was already a wealthy entrepreneur, at the offices of his property company. The informers say Berlusconi met Stefano Bontade, then one of the mafia’s most powerful bosses, because he feared for his family’s safety at a time when Italy was plagued by a wave of high-profile kidnappings.
Francesco Di Carlo, one of Bontade’s henchmen who is now in jail, told prosecutors that he was at the meeting. He claims Berlusconi asked for help to ensure that neither he nor his children would be abducted by other mafia clans.
According to the henchman’s testimony, Bontade gave his word that he would personally ensure Berlusconi’s safety. In return Berlusconi told the mafia godfather that he was “at his disposal, for anything”.
According to anti-mafia prosecutors, the meeting was arranged by Marcello Dell’Utri, a close friend and business partner of Berlusconi. Dell’Utri later played an important role in founding the tycoon’s first political party, Forza Italia, which won the 1994 election and took Berlusconi to power. . . .
Berlusconi coalition is actually polling within 5% of the leading center-left coalition. Yep:
Note that Allessandra Mussolini may not be the only granddaughter of Musolini elected to office:
Yes, former neo-fascist Gianfranco Fini is no longer allied with Belusconi and is now backing former troika-installed technocrat Mario Monti. There’s been no shortage of shifting alliances: