Editor quits over Berlusconi scandal
Dino Boffo, editor of Avvenire – the Italian Bishops Conference’s daily – resigned after another newspaper, owned by Berlusconi’s family, attacked him over his private life.
Il Giornale reported last week that Boffo – whose paper has been critical of Berlusconi’s private life – had accepted a plea bargain and paid a fine in 2004 after being accused of harassing a woman. It said Boffo had a homosexual relationship with the woman’s partner, and called him a hypocritical moralist who should not criticise Berlusconi’s flamboyant lifestyle because he had sexual skeletons in his own closet.
