Italy: Berlusconi cremated after state funeral
- June 15, 2023
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Remains of former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconidied last Monday at the age of 86 from leukemia, They were taken away for cremation this Thursday. his partner
Remains of former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconidied last Monday at the age of 86 from leukemia, They were taken away for cremation this Thursday. his partner Marta Faskina and other relatives.
The coffin of the magnate was transported in a funeral car to a crematorium in the city of Valenza (north), between the regions of Lombardy and Piedmont, escorted by the police and taken in by dozens of fans.
The act in which the cremation will take place it will last about four hoursreported by local media.
In addition to the tycoon’s girlfriend Martha Fascina, who is 53 years his junior and whom he married in March 2022 in a “token” ceremony with no legal effect, the coffin was accompanied by Berlusconi’s sons, Paolo and Luigi.
Berlusconi received a state funeral yesterday Wednesday at the Cathedral of Milan (North) in front of the country’s highest level, from the President of the Republic. Sergio Mattarellaprime minister Georgia Meloni, supported by her Forza Italia party.
In addition, national mourning was declared. flags were flown at half mast throughout the country.
The corpse of a conservative politician was veiled in the strictest privacy in his mansion from the city of Arcore (north) on Monday, and then with a funeral procession he was transferred to Milan, where he was received with military honors.
His ashes, according to media reports, will be guarded in the mausoleum that the magnate built in the garden of his villa at Arkor, the residence from which he ruled his empire.
On Wednesday afternoon, his coffin was carried through the city to the foot of the temple, where five children were waiting for him. Marina, Pier Silvio, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi, and his last girlfriend, deputy Marta Faskina, who wept inconsolably.
The coffin, later carried in procession, received picket honors from Army, Navy and Aeronautics, and the flags of the square and the whole country flew at half mast.
In the gated street, thousands of supporters of the businessman have been waiting since early morning, despite the ardor of justice. they burst into applause as soon as the hearse pulled up to the place.
“President, there is only one president” chanted hundreds of football fans, thankful for the dozens of trophies he had won with Milan.
the coffin was brought to the altar of the temple and laid on the ground, adorned with white and red flowers, which with their green leaves form the Italian flag, and an official photo of the politician.
A few meters away, in the front row, Fascina wept inconsolably, half a century younger and who accompanied him through his illness, leukemia, and until the very end.
Sitting next to him five sons of a magnatestarting with her eldest daughter Marina, president of the Fininvest family holding, who patted the “widow” on the shoulder.
And also Pier Silvio, head of the television store Mediaset, both as a result of his first marriage to Carla Dall’Oglio, and the three most cautious, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi, were with the actress. Veronica Lario, who row behind took care of the politician’s fifteen grandchildren.
Photo: Reuters
The prime minister was seen very closeGeorgia Meloni, supported by a coalition of right-wing parties, which included Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party and their ally and Vice President Matteo Salvini.
Among those present was the European Commissioner for the Economy and the former Prime Minister of Italy, Paolo Gentiloni, and Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban.
Before all of them, before the political power itself, gathered under the Gothic vaults of the temple, the sermon of Monsignor Delpini recalled the futility of human existencedepriving her of the tinsel of success or popularity.
“Berlusconi was certainly a political man, a businessman, a famous person, but in this moment of farewell and prayer, what can we say about him? That it was a man It was a desire for life, love and joy. That’s what we can say about him, that he was a man who will now meet with God,” he proclaimed.
State funerals and national mourning, broadcast live on Italian public television, closes the “era of Berlusconi”the same charismatic politician who rose in 1994 after the collapse of the Second Republic, corroded by the corruption of the post-war political system.
Photo: Reuters
But at the same time, he opens an uncertain page about his business and political empire.
First, it still needs to be clarified the future of a huge legacy of more than 6,000 million euros among Fininvest companies such as Mediaset TV or the Monza football club, as well as numerous properties and villas throughout the country.
But its long shadow will also continue to point to a certain compass in national politics, because no one knows what will happen to his Forza Italia game, with whom he convinced 8% of Italians into generals last year and who to this day has been orphaned as a leader.
Formation He doesn’t waste his best moments in fact, she has lost a lot of influence lately, but her stability is important to Meloni.
Perhaps for this reason, as soon as it became known about his death, the prime minister ran to promise that her government would survivethat he would fulfill the goals he set for himself with old Silvio, always with thoughts of power, until his last breath.
(According to Gonzalo Sanchez/EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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