Posted 1/2/2024, 3:23:35 PM
Italian MP Accidentally Shoots Guest While Showing Off Gun at New Year's Party
- Italian MP Emanuele Pozzolo brought a .22 calibre mini-revolver to a New Year's Eve party and accidentally shot a guest in the leg while showing it off
- Opposition leaders condemned the shooting and demanded Prime Minister Georgia Meloni take action against Pozzolo and his far-right Brothers of Italy party
- The injured man was the son-in-law of a member of Undersecretary Andrea Delmastro's security team; he suffered a minor injury
- Delmastro, a Brother of Italy party member, was at the party but stepped outside when the gun went off
- The Brothers of Italy party dismissed the shooting as having no political relevance amid calls for the prime minister to intervene