(ANSA) - SIENA, OCTOBER 21 - Silvio Berlusconi and Arcore pianist Danilo Mariani were acquitted "because the fact does not exist" at the Ruby ter trial in Siena where they were accused of bribery in judicial acts. Thus the court ruling after about an hour in council chamber. "Very great result, both acquitted with full formula: I am really happy. Not surprised: it is the right ending of this process that perhaps we should have stopped a little earlier", commented immediately after reading one of Berlusconi's defenders, the lawyer Enrico De Martino . "I heard Berlusconi a little while ago, he is obviously relieved and satisfied", the lawyer Federico Cecconi, one of the Cavaliere's lawyers, then told reporters, speaking of "good viaticum for the future"about possible positive effects on the Ruby ter process underway in Milan. "This is what we hope for - explained Cecconi - this, let us remember, we must consider it a fragment of a broader procedure but the characteristics, the charges, the accusatory approach was the same". As for the acquittal, he concluded: "We are never surprised, we are pleased that we are finally beginning to clarify this situation which evidently created prostration for President Berlusconi.we are pleased that we are finally beginning to clarify this situation which evidently created prostration for President Berlusconi.we are pleased that we are finally beginning to clarify this situation which evidently created prostration for President Berlusconi.
So that's fine. "
For Berlusconi and the pianist Mariani, the prosecutor had asked for a 4-year sentence. (ANSA).
