Thousands shout "clown, clown" to citizen silvio berlusconi the embarassment of Italia!!!

Silvio Berlusconi resigned on Saturday to make way for an emergency government Italians hope will save them from financial ruin as thousands of jeering protesters shouted "clown, clown" and toasted the end of a scandal-plagued era.


List of Scandals


• Lodo Mondadori: bribery of judges (statute of limitation acquittal)

• All Iberian 1: 23 billion Lira bribe to Bettino Craxi via an offshore bank account code-named All Iberian (first court sentence: 2 years 4 month jail; appeal: acquitted since the statute of limitations expired before the appeal)

• Lentini affair: false accounting (not guilty because of changes in the false accounting law)

• Propaganda Due (P2) masonic lodge trial: false testimony (guilty but amnesty applied)

• Macherio estates: false accounting (amnesty applied following the 1992 fiscal remission law)

• All Iberian 2: false accounting (acquittal following the new law on the false accounting passed by the Berlusconi government)

• Sme-Ariosto 2: false accounting (acquittal following the new law on the false accounting passed by the Berlusconi government)

• Sme-Ariosto 1: charge for the sale by IRI, bribes to judges (first instance court sentence)

• Bribery of the Guardia di Finanza (first sentence: 2 years 9 months jail; appeal: statute of limitations for 3 charges, acquittal for the fourth (not proven)

• Medusa Cinema company: false accounting (acquitted since too rich for being aware of such small amounts)

• Sme-Ariosto 1: bribes to the judge Renato Squillante

• Macherio estates: embezzlement, tax evasion, another false accounting (the statute of limitations expired before the first court verdict for one charge; and before the appeal court for the second one)

• Television rights: false accounting, tax evasion, embezzlement

• Fininvest financial statement: false accounting and embezzlement (archived thanks to the new law on the false accounting passed by the Berlusconi government)

• Fininvest consolidated financial statements: false accounting (archived thanks to the new law on the false accounting passed by the Berlusconi government)

• Agreement on the division of publicity between RAI and Fininvest televisions

• Traffic of drug

• Tax bribery on the Pay-tv

• Collusion into the 1992–1993 slaughters

• Mafia collusion, together with Marcello Dell'Utri, money laundering

• Bribe to the lawyer David Mills: corruption to influence a judiciary sentence

• Corruption of senators of the Romano Prodi government camp (procedure transferred from Naples to Rome)

• Paying an underage girl (Karima el-Mahroug) for sex and abuse of office relating to her release from detention


Former European Commissioner Mario Monti is expected to be given the task of trying to form a new administration to face a widening financial crisis which has sent Italy's borrowing costs to unmanageable levels.


More than a thousand demonstrators waving banners mocking Berlusconi flocked to the president's residence at the Quirinale Palace as the motorcade carrying the billionaire media entrepreneur, who has been Italy's longest serving prime minister, entered.


The crowd grew so unruly that Berlusconi was forced to leave (scurry away) secretly via a side entrance and return to his private residence.


Cheers broke out when they heard that Berlusconi had resigned and the square broke out into a party atmosphere. People sang, danced and some broke open bottles of champagne.


An orchestra near the palace played the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah. "We are here to rejoice," one said.

Demonstrators chanting "resign, resign, resign" also gathered outside the prime minister's office and parliament, heckling ministers as they walked between the two buildings.

After the resignation, hundreds shouting "Jail, Jail, Jail," moved from the presidential palace to Berlusconi's residence to continue the noisy celebrations below his windows.
With a public debt of more than 120 percent of gross domestic product and more than a decade of anemic economic growth behind it, Italy is at the heart of the euro zone debt crisis and would be too big for the bloc to bail out.



Berlusconi, fighting an array of scandals and facing trials on charges ranging from tax fraud to paying for sex with an under-aged prostitute, had been under pressure to resign for weeks as the market crisis threatened to spin out of control.