Thu Jul 24, 2008
ROME, July 24 (Reuters) - 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 anymore," the 71-year-old billionaire was quoted as saying by senators at the closed-door meeting on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssBroadcasting/idUSL457097420080724