At least 6-8 shots were fired on Sunday around 11.40 in front of Palazzo Chigi in Rome, just as the new Letta government was being sworn in at the Quirinale with President Giorgio Napolitano. Two carabinieri were injured. I'm a brigadier and a pin. The sergeant was wounded in the throat and is hospitalized in Umberto I, but his life would not be in danger. The other soldier, a pinned man, was shot in the leg. Is not serious. A third carabiniere was struck by an illness. A passerby was also injured by a ricocheting bullet.
The new Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano together with the Minister of Defense Mario Mauro arrived at the Umberto I hospital where the sergeant is. "It is the gesture of a madman and a deranged man," said the mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno as soon as he arrived in Piazza Colonna. And he added: "But we shouldn't be surprised when he continually rails against the" Palazzo ", as if it were to be demolished".
The man who shot was arrested by the police. It is Luigi Preiti, 49 years old, a Calabrian from Rosarno, he would have no criminal record. He arrived in the square in a jacket and tie and started shooting. He too was then wounded in the ensuing shootout. Now he is hospitalized in San Giovanni. But other people are being sought who may have participated in the attack. The man was immobilized by other carabinieri and taken to the barracks. The carabinieri of the scientific investigations department are carrying out the findings in front of Palazzo Chigi. On the ground there are still six white circles drawn with chalk, around as many shell casings. Near the police van, at the point where one of the two carabinieri was shot, there is instead a bloodstain. All access to Piazza Colonna is blocked by the police.
