Court chief slams Berlusconi’s ‘neurotic’ claims

THE head of Italy’s highest court slammed Silvio Berlusconi’s “neurotic” accusations that the justice system was biased yesterday as the prime minister awaits trial for abuse of power and having underage sex.

Berlusconi has rejected a request by prosecutors to put him immediately on trial, calling it a “farce,” and dismissed their case as a pretext by a politically-biased judiciary to smear him in the media and eventually oust him.

But the president of the constitutional court, Ugo De Siervo, said that to suggest that the 15 judges who sit in his court are anything but entirely impartial is a “slander against the court and gravely offensive.”