(26 Apr 2001)
1.Berlusconi’s arrival outside the Trionfale district market
2. Berlusconi and media
3. Berlusconi shaking hands of fans
4. Berlusconi inside market
5. Gianfranco Fini, leader of the right-wing party "Alleanza Nazionale" and media
6. Berlusconi and crowd
7. Cutaway of market stall
8. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Forza Italia party
"As far as terrorism is concerned is clear that union of every politic and democratic force has to be a barrier in order to avoid that anyone should make any violent act."
9. Berlusconi getting into car
10. Forza Italia party flag
11. Berlusconi being driven away in his car
STORYLINE:
Italy goes to the polls on May 13th and recent opinion polls put former prime minister and media-magnate Silvio Berlusconi well in the lead.
During the last two weeks the campaign has been marred by a series of bomb threats and one explosion which damaged a private research institute in Rome.
No arrests have been made and both main parties have been slinging mud at each other over allegations of involvement in terror.
On Thursday Mr. Berlusconi said he was ‘always blamed’ by the left for political violence.
Earlier in the week the conservative leader scrambled to control damage to his image after he linked a terrorist assassination to the center-left ruling coalition.
The bitter controversy was the latest in an already tough war of words between the two coalitions.
It started Saturday when Berlusconi claimed the 1999 shooting death of government aide Massimo D’Antona was a "settling of accounts within the left."
Berlusconi tried to clarify his remark, saying he was talking about organizations "outside the parliamentary left and the unions."
But it still landed like a bombshell, in part because it came just a day after Berlusconi claimed he was getting so many threats he was canceling his campaign rallies.
Despite the threats, Berlusconi was back at the hustings on Thursday, meeting supporters in an open air market in Rome.
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