Late last year, lawyers for one of Berlusconi's co-defendants in the witness tampering trial began negotiations to settle the women's claims, ANSA reported at the time. But by January, the Milan court had thrown out their claims altogether. Two weeks later, Fadil was hospitalized.
News reports said that before she slipped into unconsciousness, Fadil told her lawyer and family that she feared she had been poisoned.
ANSA quoted Greco as lamenting that the Humanitas hospital in Rozzano didn't report Fadil's complaints or symptoms, which he said were consistent with poisoning while she was being treated. He said prosecutors were only informed of the death when Fadil's lawyer reported it.
