Farewell to Ghedini, Berlusconi's friend and lawyer

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and for many the historic

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died

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in Milan from the complications of a

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performed in recent months.

"It does not seem possible but unfortunately it is - is the moving memory of the president of Forza Italia, among the first to announce it on social networks - Our pain is great, immense, we can hardly believe it: three days ago we worked together again".

Then the farewell to "a great, dear friend, an exceptional professional, cultured and highly intelligent, of infinite generosity".

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Condolences also from the President of the Senate,

and her fellow citizen: "A witty and subtle mind, a refined and fighting jurist, a politician of other times, a man of authentic ethics", defines him as the second position of the state, adding a very personal "I will never forget you".

Born in Padua in 1959 and graduated in law in Ferrara, Ghedini followed in the footsteps of his father Giuseppe, a well-known Paduan criminal lawyer.

In the 1980s he participated in the defense of

, who along with Wolfgang Abel was responsible for a series of murders that collectively signed themselves as 'Ludwig'.

A decade earlier, the debut in politics in the Youth Front that was headed by the Italian Social Movement.

Then the transition to the Liberal Party and later the proximity to FI and the Cavaliere.

As a defender, he is the expression "end user and therefore never criminally punishable" coined to support the thesis that the former premier was not prosecuted in the trials on relations with escorts in Palazzo Grazioli and in Sardinia.

In the ranks of the blue party, Ghedini was elected to the Chamber in 2001 and then three more times, until the last term, alternating the seat of deputy with that of senator.

, during the convalescence of the Cav operated on the heart.