Berlusconi lashes out like a wounded animal...

Like an enraged, wounded animal, Silvio Berlusconi struck out indiscriminately at his perceived tormentors yesterday, after Italy's constitutional court stripped him of his immunity from prosecution.

Tonight the head of state, President Giorgio Napolitano, summoned the speakers of both houses of parliament to an emergency meeting, apparently to discuss Berlusconi's behaviour and the risk that he was tipping Italy into constitutional crisis.

Within less than 24 hours of yesterday's judgment, the prime minister had insulted the constitutional court, questioned the impartiality of the president and his predecessors, and held a female MP up to ridicule on live television. More...

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