Ruby ter: trial ahead for all defendants in September

(ANSA) - MILAN, MAY 26 - The Court of Milan has decided not to temporarily separate, as requested by the prosecutors, the position of Silvio Berlusconi from that of the other defendants in the Ruby ter case.

The trial will go ahead, therefore, for all the defendants together, including Berlusconi, with the hearing postponed to 8 September.

    "Physical multiple pathologies have no chance of recovery, because they are chronic, as they have been described, and pathologies, I point out that of the three expressed, one is psychological and the other is psychiatric-neurological, give a picture that deserves attention". So said the assistant prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano in the courtroom, after the judges of the Ruby ter trial said no to the separation of Berlusconi's position from those of the other defendants for reasons of health, to point out that he could ask in the hearing in September for an expert opinion on the capacity "of the accused of participating in the hearing ". (HANDLE).