Posted AT 5:32 AM EST on 24/07/08
Berlusconi 'freed' by Italy's new immunity law
ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi thanked Italian lawmakers for granting him immunity from prosecution in a law approved by parliament this week, saying, “You've freed me.”
“Finally the magistrates can't persecute me any more,” the 71-year-old billionaire was quoted as saying by senators at the closed-door meeting on Wednesday.
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