It’s an official day of nationwide mourning in Italy with flags flying half-mast to mark the loss of life of Silvio Berlusconi, the nation’s most divisive and charismatic public determine who dominated politics, enterprise and sport for many years.
Tens of hundreds of supporters of the controversial four-time prime minister gathered for a state funeral on Wednesday in Milan to pay their respects to the so-called “Knight” – a person who embodied the fashionable period of self-made moguls and remained a darling to many Italians regardless of a historical past of authorized woes, intercourse scandals and worldwide gaffes.
Berlusconi died on Monday aged 86 on the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. He had been admitted there on Friday for preplanned assessments associated to a continual type of leukaemia.
Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego experiences.
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