Berlusconi attacked
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was strolling through Rome’s Piazza Navona on New Year’s Eve when a young man banged him over the head with a camera tripod. Berlusconi got a black eye but was otherwise unharmed, and the man, Roberto Del Bosco, was immediately arrested. Del Bosco, a leftist, said that he was taken completely by surprise to see the right-wing prime minister, “the man I hate most in the world,” standing so close to him. “At first I just wanted to touch his forehead, like you do to the bulls at Pamplona,” Del Bosco said. “But I had my tripod in my hand, and I used it.”
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