An Italian national living in Louvain, Belgium, is being pressured to remove an anti-Silvio Berlusconi collage from a window of his home, says Le Soir. At the end of August, Giuseppe Caprioli put up a selection of photos and headline stories about the Italian Prime Minister, and his initiative has now attracted attention from Italian diplomats and the local media. In addition to enumerating the ten embarrassing questions that the "Repubblica" newspaper adresses to Berlusconi everyday, the collage also bears the caption "Citizens of the world, please forgive us." A few days after a senator from Berlusconi's party visited the town, Caprioli received a flurry of letters and phone calls encouraging him to take down his presentation. "From what I was told, the Italian Embassy in Belgium was contacted, then the Brussels' consul, and finally the honorary consul in Louvain" says Caprioli, who resides in the same building as the local consul. The honorary consul has now threatened to move out unless the collage is removed.
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