Overview
- Deputy Emanuele Pozzolo was found guilty in first instance of illegally carrying a collector firearm and received a suspended sentence of one year and three months.
- The court cleared him of the separate allegation over expanding or war-type ammunition, stating that the fact did not exist.
- Prosecutor Paola Francesca Ranieri had sought one year and six months on two counts, but judges convicted only on the carrying offense.
- The case stems from a New Year’s 2024 event in Rosazza where a shot from Pozzolo’s mini-revolver injured Luca Campana, with the injury charge later dropped after compensation and withdrawal of the complaint.
- Prosecutors argued the pistol was registered under a collection license rather than his recently obtained personal-defense permit, a distinction central to the verdict, and Pozzolo later noted some accusations were reduced.