Brothers of Italy (FdI) lawmaker
Emanuele Pozzolo has been suspended from the party caucus in the
Lower House amid an ongoing furore in relation to a shot fired
accidentally from a gun he was carrying after a New Year's Eve
party and that injured a man in the leg, FdI House whip Tommaso
Foti said on Tuesday.
"The presidential office of the FdI caucus in the Chamber of
Deputies today adopted the precautionary measure of suspension
from the group of the Honourable Emanuele Pozzolo as a matter of
urgency," Foti said.
In her year-end press conference last Thursday Premier Giorgia
Meloni told reporters she had "asked that Pozzolo be referred
to FdI's board of arbitrators independently of the
investigations being carried out by the competent authority and
that he be suspended from the party pending judgement".
Pozzolo, 38, has been placed under investigation for grievous
bodily harm after a bullet grazed the thigh of the 31-year-old
son-in-law of the bodyguard of FDI Justice Undersecretary Andrea
Delmastro, also at the party, although he claims he did not fire
it.
He took a gunshot residue test the day after the incident, whose
result has yet to be made public.
Pozzolo has in the past posted on social media photos of
Mussolini, and said he is a "reactionary" who is in favour of
"defending ourselves with firearms".
After the incident, police said they were proceeding to
confiscate another six firearms owned by the lawmaker.
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