It is in Rosazza, a town in northern Italy with barely 100 inhabitants, where the first political scandal of the year for Giorgia Meloni. On December 31, several members of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia party, the prime minister’s party, celebrate a New Year’s Eve party at a venue in the town.

I organized it Andrea Delmastro, Undersecretary of Justice. After midnight, she leaves the party and hears a gunshot coming from inside the premises. When she re-enters, one of the guests is lying on a table with a gunshot wound to the leg.

The shot comes from a small pistol, a weapon with which, loaded, another party colleague comes to the party: the deputy Emanuele Pozzolo, who had not even been invited to the party and stopped by for a while before the incident just to say hello. .

He denies having pulled the trigger and says that it fired accidentally, although, in 2015, Pozzolo assured that no gun fired by itself, alluding to the massacre in Oregon, in the United States.

In Italy they do not explain what a deputy is doing when he goes to a party with a loaded weapon or what brag about it to the guests passing it from hand to hand.

The Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation and has asked Pozzolo for the clothes he was wearing that day, but he, relying on his parliamentary immunity, has refused. Although the opposition calls for him to be dismissed, for Fratelli d’Italia what happened has no relevance policy.