Italy's Berlusconi starts community service at old people's home


  • World
  • Friday, 09 May 2014

CESANO BOSCONE Italy (Reuters) - A sombre and silent Silvio Berlusconi entered a Catholic old people's home outside Milan on Friday to begin community service as part of a one-year sentence for tax fraud.

Berlusconi, at 77 still the most influential politician of Italy's centre-right, had a four-year jail sentence handed down last August commuted into an obligation to spend four hours a week for a year at a centre for the elderly.

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