Italy: probe into death of Moroccan-Italian key witness in trials involving Ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi

The Italian police has opened an investigation into the death of an Italian model of Moroccan origin who has been key in the prosecution against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi involved in a sex scandal with a Moroccan teenager, Karima El Mahroug, known as “Ruby”.

Imane Fadil, 34, an important witness in the sex scandal involving Berlusconi and Ruby that the former Italian leader paid for love intercourse several times during his «bunga bunga» parties, died March 1 near Milan after falling sick in January.

The young woman who suffered a month-long agony told her family and lawyer that she feared she had been poisoned, police told state-run news agency ANSA.

She died as result of a progressive organ failure and post mortem toxicology tests revealed the presence of radioactive substance in her body, reports say.

Imane Fadil wrote her story book titled “I met the devil”, HuffPost Italy reports. Copies of the book which has not been published yet have been seized by the Italian justice, the media notes.

The police has not established any connection between the book and the death by “poison”.

But in January during her last public comments on the sex scandal, the young woman said she had suffered since she was 25 from Berlusconi and his entourage who attempted several times to bribe her.

The young woman also regretted her exclusion as a civil claimant in the trials.

The former Prime Minister who is embroiled in alleged fraud and corruption had been cleared in the case. Judges in 2015 ruled that Berlusconi did not know Ruby’s real age, 17, when she attended his «bunga bunga» parties.

The former Italian leader reportedly also denied knowing Imane Fadil.