意前總理貝盧斯科尼一審被判7年徒刑

Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from holding public office for life at the conclusion of a sex and abuse of office trial that is likely to raise tensions between the two main parties in Italy’s fragile coalition government.

西爾維奧•貝盧斯科尼(Silvio Berlusconi)因性犯罪和濫用職權罪被判處入獄7年並且終身不得擔任公職，這可能引起意大利脆弱的聯合政府的主要兩黨之間關係緊張。

A Milan court yesterday found the 76-year-old former prime minister and leader of the People of Liberty party guilty on charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute, Karima El Mahroug, a Moroccan nightclub dancer, and abuse of office when, as prime minister in 2010, he put pressure on a chief of police to free the teenager from detention on suspicion of theft.

米蘭一家法院昨天判決這位76歲的前總理及自由人民黨(People of Liberty party)黨魁有罪，罪名是與未成年妓女、摩洛哥籍夜總會舞女卡里瑪•埃爾馬魯格(Karima El Mahroug)發生性交易，並且在2010年擔任總理時濫用職權，迫使警察局長釋放了因涉嫌盜竊而被拘留的埃爾馬魯格。

Niccolò Ghedini, Mr Berlusconi’s defence lawyer, called the sentence “beyond logic” and said the former prime minister, now a senator, would appeal. Italy’s judicial system has a lengthy two-stage appeals system and the sentence, if confirmed, will not be enforced until that process is exhausted.

貝盧斯科尼的辯護律師尼科洛•蓋迪尼(Niccolò Ghedini)稱，這一量刑“不合邏輯”，並表示這位現擔任參議員的前總理將上訴。意大利司法系統的上訴制度分爲兩個階段，過程漫長，只有走完這一流程，方可執行已判定的刑期（如果上訴庭維持原判的話）。

It was Mr Berlusconi’s third criminal conviction since March in separate trials, which he has repeatedly denounced as part of a leftwing conspiracy by a biased judiciary to destroy his political career after leading Italy’s centre-right for nearly 20 years.

這是貝盧斯科尼今年3月以來在不同審判中第三次被判犯有刑事罪。他屢次譴責這是左翼在利用有偏見的司法體系破壞他的政治生涯。貝盧斯科尼領導意大利中右翼已有將近20年。