Man arrested outside Berlusconi hospital room

A YOUNG man with mental problems managed yesterday to reach the hospital floor where Premier Silvio Berlusconi was recovering from an attack, and police were questioning him, authorities said.

A Milan anti-terrorism police official said the man “wanted to pay a visit on the premier at 2am” yesterday and made it to the entrance of the seventh floor of Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital where Berlusconi, 73, was being treated.

Police overpowered the intruder.