Details of the amnesty have yet to be made public.It is unlikely to be restricted to what is being called an “amnesty light” – pardoning only illegal building additions to interiors, or those which do not increase a building’s volume – because that would not bring in enough money.The government needs to raise €16bn (£11.3bn) if it is to keep Italy’s budget deficit for 2004 to 1.8 per cent of gross domestic product. A storm of protest broke over Silvio Berlusconi’s government yesterday because it intends to fill a gaping hole in its budget by giving an amnesty to illegal builders who agree to pay fines.
More than 30,000 buildings have been constructed illegally in Italy since January 2002, and more are going up all the time. Chirac’s private office while he was mayor of Paris from 1977-1995, have already been placed under formal investigation by the examining magistrate Colette Bismuth-Sauron.. According to the newspaper Le Monde, Mme Gr? told investigators that she “never set foot” in the Paris town hall.A dozen people, including three former heads of M. de Gaulle hired Delphine Gr? in 1990, he gave her a town hall contract to sign but told her that she would work exclusively for him, writing speeches, magazine articles and parliamentary questions. He is accused of hiring an assistant and speech-writer for his parliamentary work in 1990 and 1991, knowing that her salary would be paid by the city of Paris.The allegation is that when M. Chirac’s now defunct neo-Gaullist party, the RPR.He had been placed under judicial investigation – one step short of a criminal charge – for “receiving embezzled public funds”.

The grandson of Charles de Gaulle has been formally accused of fraud as part of a judicial investigation into the misuse of public funds at the Paris town hall when President Jacques Chirac was mayor.
Jean de Gaulle, 50, a member of parliament for the President’s UMP party, is suspected of taking part in the systematic diversion of Paris taxpayers’ money to run M. He is said to be irascible and not very bright, although softening with age.. “It would be unforgivable if we had to announce Copito’s death before Barceloneses had been given the opportunity to say goodbye to the animal that has become a symbol of the city,” a statement from the town hall said.Snowflake was taken to Barcelona in 1966 from what is now Ecuatorial Guinea after a hunter found him orphaned, and sold him to a Spanish naturalist for the equivalent of about £60.He produced six offspring, none of them albino, from three mates. He was given surgery when he developed cancer two years ago, but at the weekend keepers announced they would not prolong his life unnaturally.He receives antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs and anti-depressants. Thousands of people living in Barcelona flocked to the city’s zoo yesterday to say goodbye to Snowflake, the albino gorilla who is dying of skin cancer and old age.
“Our priority is to let him die with dignity, not subject him to treatment that would cause him pain and suffering,” the zoo’s president, Jordi Portabella, said, urging people to visit “while he still has all his faculties”.Keepers have tried to keep Copo de Nieve (Snowflake) – thought to be the world’s only albino gorilla – out of the sun as much as possible throughout the 37 years he has lived in the zoo. Families were given sculptures of bronzed Easter lilies.While Unionist politicians have condemned such events, republicans have won praise in other quarters for a more conciliatory attitude towards commemorating other traditions.There was criticism in Dublin yesterday of four Sinn Fein members of the Dail who were pictured inside an Irish prison with IRA inmates serving sentences for the killing of an Irish detective.. Last year about 2,500 people attended a dinner in Dublin commemorating republicans killed during the conflict, hearing speeches from the Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

To celebrate the Maze escape is glorifying in acts of terrorism and rubbing salt into the wounds of those who were victimised as a result.”The event illustrates republicans’ continuing appetite for commemorating and marking events in the Troubles, even though the IRA has become less active. They were acquitted, the judge saying he could not be satisfied that the heart attack was the result of being stabbed.The Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson condemned the event, saying: “I think that this celebration is totally inappropriate when one considers that a prison officer lost his life and others were left wounded and deeply traumatised. Although half were recaptured within days the incident was an embarrassment to the authorities and a huge morale boost for the IRA. Sixteen were charged with murdering a prison officer who died after being stabbed with a chisel.