The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, announced this Thursday the suspension of a deputy from her party, Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), for having carried a firearm at a New Year’s Eve party that ended up causing one injury.
“I have asked that the deputy (Emanuele) Pozzolo appear before the ethics committee of Fratelli d’Italia and that, pending trial, he be suspended,” declared the leader of the far-right party in her end-of-year press conference, Initially scheduled for the end of December but postponed for health reasons.
Pozzolo, 38, admitted having gone with a weapon, a 22-caliber mini-pistol, to a party organized on the premises of a cultural association in Rosazza, a town of a hundred inhabitants 70 kilometers from Turin (northwest).
The 31-year-old victim, who was slightly injured in the leg, was one of thirty guests.
“I confirm that the shot was fired accidentally with a legal pistol that belongs to me, but I was not the one who shot it,” said the deputy. known for having opposed vaccines and the health passport during the pandemic.