Arrest of prince leaves Italy reeling - Democratic Underground

WhiteTara

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Sat Jun-17-06 05:09 PM
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Arrest of prince leaves Italy reeling

http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=364520&lng=1

Italy is in shock after the son of its last king was arrested as part of an investigation into prostitution and corruption. One of the country's best-known figures, Prince Victor Emmanuel was detained in the north but taken to a jail in Potenza in the south where the probe is based.
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Others detained include Salvatore Sottile, a top aide to the foreign minister in former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government.

According to media reports, investigators believe Prince Victor Emmanuel had contacts with Mafia clans and was involved in procuring prostitutes for clients of a casino in Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave on Lake Lugano near the Swiss border.

I wonder if he is friends with the monkey?

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Poll_Blind

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Sat Jun-17-06 05:15 PM
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1. I take a big steaming dump on all monarchies in Paine's honor.

"Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that every lived."
Common Sense, 1776

PB

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tabasco

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Sat Jun-17-06 05:22 PM
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3. A hearty second to that !

The idea of a monarch is repulsive.

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UTUSN

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Sat Jun-17-06 06:20 PM
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6. & a 3rd. This one seems crony to Shrub's BERTOLUSCONI n/t

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Cha

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Sat Jun-17-06 07:26 PM
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10. Ain't that the

Truth!

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MisterP

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Sat Jun-17-06 05:19 PM
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2. did he slug another one of Juan Carlos's relatives?

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xchrom

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Sat Jun-17-06 06:07 PM
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4. once you're that far up the food chain -- you have to pay for sex?

shit -- i'd be all over that hollywood producer line in some fashion...

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bkcc

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Sat Jun-17-06 06:17 PM
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5. Just ask Neil Bush...

he'll tell you. People should send you hookers for free at that point.

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xchrom

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Sat Jun-17-06 06:26 PM
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7. lol -- you'd think that was the LEAST they could do. n/t

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tocqueville

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Sat Jun-17-06 07:06 PM
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8. I think he was pimping

that's the difference

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nealmhughes

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Sat Jun-17-06 07:24 PM
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9. To translate Voltaire:

Man will never be truly free until the last aristocrat has been strangled with the bowels of the last cleric.
Man, those Savoys are sure one screwed up family.

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