Berlusconi doesn't know what her parents went through

In the daily Dnevnik Tanja Lesničar-Pučko criticises the attempts by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to keep coma patient Eluana Englaro alive: "The absolute ruler who asserts the right to decide everything; who turns the state into a caricature where the mafia kills like never before: who glorifies fascism, … suddenly becomes as sensitive as a mimosa. Of course it's clear where this sensitivity comes from, which state within the state is behind this, and why the whole affair has become a political farce: because of the disregard of the court ruling, the trial of strength with President [Giorgio] Napolitano and the threat to dismiss him. In political battle and the calls for changes to the constitution and dictatorial powers any perversity is allowed. … Eluana's family obviously could no longer bear the pain, and while Berlusconi talks of how she could still have children he doesn't know what a person who has spent 17 years in a coma looks like, nor does he know how her parents have suffered all those years."

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