European Journal - 2002-01-27
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[0:21] Democracies rest on checks and balances,
[0:23] but in Italy is the balance tilting.
[0:26] Welcome to European Journal coming to
[0:28] you as always from DWTV in Brussels. On
[0:31] the program this week,
[0:34] Clash Belisconi and the law
[0:39] cash the euro in London
[0:44] and Crash France and a 35-hour week.
[0:48] Sylvio Belliski rules Italy. He's the
[0:51] prime minister, foreign minister,
[0:53] multi-billionaire media mogul, man of
[0:55] the people, and he courts confrontation.
[0:58] He wants to run the country like his
[1:00] business empire from the top down,
[1:03] casting aside any resistance. Now he's
[1:05] got his sight set on a justice system,
[1:08] which according to Mr. Belesone has a
[1:10] political vendetta against him. Why else
[1:13] would magistrates be so interested in
[1:15] his affairs?
[1:18] The courthouse on Rome's Via de
[1:20] Tribunali has been the scene of
[1:22] centuries of legal tradition.
[1:27] Ustitia, the goddess of justice, has
[1:29] witnessed a great deal in the more than
[1:31] 2,000 years of Roman history.
[1:34] But what is happening now right under
[1:36] her nose is likely to make her blush in
[1:38] shame. On the one hand, there's Sylvio
[1:41] Belliscone, Italy's prime minister, the
[1:44] country's richest man and the defendant
[1:46] in 13 legal proceedings so far.
[1:50] On the other, public prosecutors are
[1:52] protesting in outrage, cancelling court
[1:54] dates and speaking of scandal and
[1:56] dictatorship.
[2:01] This Milan courtroom
[2:04] and this judge are the source of all the
[2:06] commotion. The judge didn't want to hand
[2:08] over a case against Burleskonei and his
[2:10] former defense minister Cesari Praviti
[2:12] to anyone else.
[2:16] The case revolves around whether
[2:18] Berloone used m