Premier Paolo Gentiloni's Democratic Party (PD) is set to punish a councillor for the centre-left group in Ancona for suggesting Carlo Giuliani, a protestor shot dead by a young Carabinieri policeman doing military service during the 2001 Genoa G8, had it coming.
Giuliani was shot as he was attacking a police vehicle with a fire extinguisher.
"Today in 2017 I am a father and if my son were in there I'd shout at him to shoot and aim well," PD councillor Diego Urbisaglia said on his Facebook page. "Yes, I am bad and heartless, but that was a question of the life of one or the other. Extinguisher against gun.
"I won't miss you Carlo Giuliani". Urbisaglia made an apology of sorts after the comments caused controversy.
"I have said sorry for the bitter tone used, but the concept remains," he said.
"I correct the words but not the concept". Lorenzo Guerini, the coordinator of the secretariat of the Democratic Party (PD), said Urbisaglia would be disciplined.
"What councillor Urbisaglia said is totally unacceptable and unjustifiable," Guerini said. "That is why I have asked the competent committee to take the punishment procedures in our statute".
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