The former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has died at the age of 86 at the San Raffele hospital in Milan as a result of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia that was diagnosed more than a year ago, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. Berlusconi was Italian Prime Minister three times, as well as a television and soccer magnate and the protagonist of Italy’s most lurid scandals.
The Telecinco journalist Ana Rosa Quintana reminded him during the broadcast this Monday of his morning program. “This house is in mourning. He was the creator of Media For Europe, which continues to support Mediaset ”, she pointed out after reading the news of his death in disbelief.
Quintana explained that Berlusconi had been in the hospital “very seriously”, but that it seemed that he was improving. “In the end it was a leukemia that he had, he had been admitted a few days ago due to some pneumonia problems,” he said.
“People perceived him as someone very close because he started out as a kid singing on cruise ships, in hotels, he has sold vacuum cleaners… Then he started with a construction business and has been a very important businessman, as well as a politician who has broken the mold with respect to the rest. Others have come later, but I think he was the first to speak of politics in a different way. At this time, his children and his last wife were in the hospital accompanying him, ”said the presenter.
“This is a shock in Italy and throughout Europe. All European newspapers currently have it on their front pages”, explained the presenter, visibly surprised by the news.
Silvio Berlusconi will be fired in the next few days with all the honours. Currently, his body is in his mansion in Arcore, for a private funeral chapel with his family in Villa Martino. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the public funeral chapel will be held at the Mediaset central studios in Milan while the state funerals will be on Wednesday, at the Duomo in the Lombard city.
