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December 18, 2009, Friday
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ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi waved weakly to photographers yesterday as he left a Milan hospital with his face covered in bandages four days after an attack by a mentally ill man.
A large bandage covered part of the left side of Berlusconi's face including his nose, which was broken when the man hurled a souvenir statue of Milan's cathedral into the premier's face.
Berlusconi, 73, also had two teeth broken in the attack.
Berlusconi took a few steps out of the San Raffaele Hospital before getting into one of several cars in a waiting motorcade.
News reports said the motorcade was headed to Arcore, the media mogul's villa on the outskirts of Milan, and some of Berlusconi's staff had assembled there. TV crews and reporters were amassed there, but hours after he left the hospital, Berlusconi hadn't shown up and his whereabouts remained a mystery.
A Swiss media report quoted the mayor of the south Swiss town of Gravesano as saying Berlusconi was expected at a local posh clinic.
The Swiss clinic would not comment on the report in the Le Matin tabloid.
The attacker, identified as Massimo Tartaglia, is in a Milan prison.
Berlusconi said in a statement released by his office that he would go on "with more strength and determination than before."
"I will remember two things about these days: the hatred of a few and the love of many, many Italians," the statement said.
Berlusconi had previously lamented that he was the target of a "climate of hatred."
A large bandage covered part of the left side of Berlusconi's face including his nose, which was broken when the man hurled a souvenir statue of Milan's cathedral into the premier's face.
Berlusconi, 73, also had two teeth broken in the attack.
Berlusconi took a few steps out of the San Raffaele Hospital before getting into one of several cars in a waiting motorcade.
News reports said the motorcade was headed to Arcore, the media mogul's villa on the outskirts of Milan, and some of Berlusconi's staff had assembled there. TV crews and reporters were amassed there, but hours after he left the hospital, Berlusconi hadn't shown up and his whereabouts remained a mystery.
A Swiss media report quoted the mayor of the south Swiss town of Gravesano as saying Berlusconi was expected at a local posh clinic.
The Swiss clinic would not comment on the report in the Le Matin tabloid.
The attacker, identified as Massimo Tartaglia, is in a Milan prison.
Berlusconi said in a statement released by his office that he would go on "with more strength and determination than before."
"I will remember two things about these days: the hatred of a few and the love of many, many Italians," the statement said.
Berlusconi had previously lamented that he was the target of a "climate of hatred."
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