The major Italian newspapers and television in recent days, focused on the scandal that has involved the former president of the Lazio region (following the resignation) Piero Marrazzo (here below with his wife).




Initially, the scandal was linked to the policemen who had blackmailed Mr. Marrazzo threatening to spread a compromising video that show him that he consume cocaine with transsexuals.

The papers speculate that the video did not exist and was a trick, but after the interrogation in which it was under Mr. Marrazzo, revealed the existence of the video.

The fact would be equally serious if mr. Marrazzo had been an ordinary person because he is married and has also made use of cocaine, but to aggravate the situation is his positions of president of Lazio region.

The first thought that arises spontaneously is: how can a person that have a role so important take cocain, risk of losing lucidity in any important decisions?

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There was a post in a blog here about the case
Sex, Lies and Dvds - Italian Online community - Italian forum
But the problem with blogs is that people do not notice them as well as the posts.

In any case while I would understand behaviour like Clinton or Berlusconi this is over the line for me for what would be the equivalent af a governor in the USA. Marozzo ( married ) was apparently cought on video with transexual prostitutes and cocaine.


As I wrote on the blog some people might also recall the Mele case a couple of years ago ( see below ) - Yes Clinton will not make a case in Italy - The people who lost their job in Italy went a lot further - see the Mele case ( from the right wing ) and the Marazzo case ( from the left wing ) -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2169777.ece
MP quits party of family values after prostitute takes overdose in hotel room
Richard Owen in Rome
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A married Roman Catholic politician whose party has espoused family values and is pressing for all Italian MPs to take drug tests was exposed yesterday after a prostitute took an overdose of cocaine in his hotel room.

Cosimo Mele, 50, a parliamentary deputy for Italy’s Christian Democratic UDC party, resigned from the party after colleagues complained that his behaviour was incompatible with the Centre Right’s espousal of family values. The timing of the dismissal was particularly sensitive as the party has been at the forefront of a campaign to oblige all parliamentarians to take a voluntary drugs test. This is due to take place tomorrow.

Mr Mele, whose wife is about to give birth to their fourth child, said that he felt proud to have risked exposure by calling the emergency services when the girl began hyperventilating and experiencing delirium and hallucinations. “At least I avoided the worst – for her,” he said. Mr Mele, who comes from Brindisi, in staunchly Catholic southern Italy, claimed he had not realised that the girl was a prostitute.

During a recess in an evening vote in the lower house, he had gone for dinner with friends at a fashionable restaurant near the French Embassy on Piazza Farnese, and had struck up a “sympathetic rapport” with a woman in her late twenties to whom he was introduced.

The MP said he had been flattered by her interest. “I am not exactly the kind of man women seek out with a lantern,” he told Il Messaggero, the Rome daily. He said that “one thing led to another” and they ended up in bed in a suite at the Hotel Flora on Via Veneto, which features in Fellini’s 1960 classic film La Dolce Vita. .

Asked if he had paid the girl for sex, Mr Mele replied: “Not exactly. I spontaneously gave her a present.” Pressed further, he admitted that the present had been a sum in cash, “though not excessive”.