Tests have found the prints of three people on the gun owned by Italian MP Emanuele Pozzolo from which a shot was fired that injured a man at a party on NewYear's Eve, according to a report by crime-scene investigators sent to prosecutors in Biella.
Pozzolo is under investigation over the accidental shooting in the town of Rosazza and has been suspended from Premier GiorgiaMeloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.
He says that, although he owns the gun, it was not him who fired it.
A gunshot residue test has found traces of gunpowder on Pozzolo's hands and clothes.
One of the prints on the gun belongs to Pozzolo' and another is that of Pablito Morello, the bodyguard of Justice Undersecretary Andrea Delmastro, who handled the weapon to make it safe after the shooting.
The DNA of the third person has not yet been identified.
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