A member of Parliament from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s celebration was on the centre of a political storm on Tuesday after taking a gun to a New 12 months’s Eve celebration the place somebody was shot with it.
Emanuele Pozzolo, a lawmaker for Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy celebration, has admitted proudly owning the mini revolver – reported to be a 22-calibre North American Arms revolver – however says he didn’t hearth it.
It was discharged by chance, he stated, inflicting a lightweight harm to the leg of a visitor, the son-in-law of a bodyguard of junior justice minister Andrea Delmastro — who was additionally in attendance.
“I verify that the shot was by accident fired from a pistol I legally held however it was not me that fired,” Pozzolo, 38, stated in a press release cited by the La Repubblica day by day.
The incident on the celebration in Rosazza close to Turin, which about 30 visitors attended, is below investigation, in line with stories.
However the story drew astonishment and outrage amongst opposition politicians.
Possession of firearms in Italy is strictly regulated, though Meloni’s celebration final month proposed to scale back to 16 the minimal age at which somebody can acquire a allow for a looking rifle.
“We couldn’t have imagined that the fervour for weapons of Giorgia Meloni’s celebration was such that MPs would take them loaded to New 12 months’s Eve events,” stated Elly Schlein, chief of the centre-left Democratic Get together.
Former centrist prime minister Matteo Renzi added: “Why deliver weapons to a New 12 months’s Eve celebration within the presence of MPs and members of the federal government?
“Meloni’s (celebration) will not be a ruling class. They’re insufficient, incapable, unpresentable. And harmful, before everything for themselves.”
Neither Meloni nor her celebration has but to react formally.
AFP