An "Editto Bulgaro" never existed, claims Berlusconi

The 18 April 2002, during a visit in Bulgaria, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blamed two journalists (Enzo Biagi and Michele Santoro) and one comedian (Daniele Luttazzi), due to an hypothetical "criminal use" they made of the public television. Berlusconi invited the new public television managment (appointed by the parliament in Italy, that is, by Berlusconi government in charge) to "avoid that this could happen again" ; during the Berlusconi government, Biagi, Santoro and Luttazzi never appeared in television, while before they was carrying out their tv programs.

The only "criminal use" these three persons carried out was arising questions about Berlusconi: the countless trials he faced, how did he managed to accumulate his fortune and so on. Exactly like in a non-taliban, modern democracy.

Obviously, Berlusconi always denied to have pulled out them of the television, claiming that the whole story was invented by the political opposition.

For more about the "Editto bulgaro":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editto_Bulgaro

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