Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is facing pressure to take action against a member of her party after a bystander was shot at a New Year’s celebration, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Emanuele Pozzolo, a member of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, claimed that the small revolver from which the bullet was fired belonged to him, but denied firing the weapon.
The shot wounded the son-in-law of a security team member who was accompanying a junior justice minister at the same event in the northern Italian village of Rosazza.
Local police are investigating the incident. Pozzolo was licensed to carry the gun, but opposition politicians are questioning why he felt the need to bring it to a New Year’s party.
“These incompetents are a danger to the safety of those who meet them, let alone the interests of the country,” said Elly Schlein, leader of the opposition centre-left Democratic Party.
The right-wing Brothers of Italy stated that unspecified action would be taken against Pozzolo if he was found to have acted improperly, but condemned efforts to politicize the incident.
(Writing by Keith Weir, editing by Ed Osmond)
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