Italy is in shock after a gunman
opened fire on Sunday at a meeting in Rome of owners of
properties in a residential complex, killing three women and
injuring four other people.
The massacre could have been worse as the alleged gunman,
Claudio Campiti, had 170 bullets and a second cartridge with
him, but was unable to use them as other participants in the
meeting managed to stop and restrain him until the police
arrived.
One of the injured people, a woman, is in a critical condition
in hospital.
Campiti had long been at odds with the management of the complex
and had been denied a gun permit for having repeatedly issued
threats.
He stole the murder weapon from a Rome shooting range.
Prosecutors have charged him with premeditated murder and said
he risks taking flight if freed.
He had 6,000 euros and a rucksack full of clothes with him on
Sunday.
Nazi and Fascist symbols were on Campiti's Facebook page.
His 14-year-old son died in a sledging accident in 2012.
One of the victims, 50-year-old Nicoletta Golisano, was a friend
of Premier Giorgia Meloni.
"Nicoletta was a protective mother, an honest and discrete
friend and a woman who was strong and fragile at the same time,"
Meloni said in a Facebook post about Golisano, a wife and
mother of a 10-year boy who was an auditor for the association
that manages the complex.
"But, above all, she was a professional with an extraordinary
sense of duty.
"That sense of duty led her to be there on Sunday morning where
a man was waiting with a firearm to kill her and two other
women...
"It will never be possible to link the word justice to this case
because it is not just to die in this way".
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