After a dreadful week for Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister's eldest daughter has claimed a "manhunt" is under way to overthrow him and subvert Italian democracy.
Marina Berlusconi, 43, leaped to her father's defence following the decision by Italy's constitutional court to remove his immunity from prosecution while in office. "In dictatorships they send tanks into the piazzas," she told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. "In a democracy like ours, you jab and you use subtle means that are officially legal and therefore even more insidious. The aim is the same, to overturn the verdict of the electorate."
Before passing an immunity law in 2008 covering himself and three other government officials, Berlusconi was facing a charge of paying a £430,000 bribe to tax consultant David Mills, the estranged husband of Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, to give evidence in his favour in Italian trials. Yesterday Mills offered to act as a defence witness in any criminal trial Berlusconi may now face.
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