Topolánek admits being naked at photographs taken at Berlusconi villa

Contrary to previous comments, former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has admitted that he appears in one of the photos taken at the summer home of the Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi last year. The picture shows a naked man with a blurred face and a white wristband of the kind Mr Topolánek wore at the time. The former Czech prime minister said however that the photograph had been tampered with.

Some 700 paparazzi pictures showing Mr Berlusconi and his guests at the his summer home were confiscated by the Italian authorities but the Spanish daily El País printed some of them on Friday. Mr Topolánek accused “European socialists” of being behind what he called a “brutal intrusion” into his privacy, and printing the photos on the first day of the elections to the European Parliament.