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06 February 2019The pistol used in all probability in the wound of Manuel Bortuzzo, last Saturday at the Axa, was found on a lawn yesterday afternoon. The hypothesis is that it was launched there during the escape. The weapon will be subjected to technical checks to establish with certainty whether it is the one from which the blow that seriously injured the boy started.

Who fired by hitting Manuel Bortuzzo could not have worn gloves. Traces of fingerprints were found on the gun found this morning.

After the analysis on the weapon, we will attempt to compare the tracks to see if they match those of the affected persons.

Meanwhile, the investigations of the mobile squad of the Rome Police Headquarters continue to try to identify who was driving the scooter from which the blows that hit the young swimmer on Saturday night were exploded.

The story
A series of gunshots on the street, exploded in the square in a residential neighborhood of Rome, to hit someone else. But in the viewfinder is a young promise of swimming, Manuel Mateo Bortuzzo, almost 20 years old, who is now admitted to the San Camillo hospital after two delicate operations. The bullet that struck him caused an injury to the spinal cord and the young man risks paralysis.

The shooting took place in front of a pub in Piazza Eschilo where two people on board a scooter thought of taking revenge with bullets in the street and with the agents at a hundred meters, still engaged in the inspection inside the room for a brawl.

The police are now on the trail of one or more people who have been identified, to trace the perpetrators of the shooting.

One thing is now certain: Manuel was a stranger to the fight that broke out an hour before his injury in a place where he never entered.

The young swimmer from Treviso, born in Trieste, of the Fiamme Gialle sports group and registered with Aurelia Nuoto, who was training in Ostia in recent months, was headed to that club with friends. But then just because of the fight he had not entered. In the meantime, however, two people who had left the pub after the violent quarrel, had returned to the scene, and after having armed themselves shouted something and exploded the three shots on a scooter. Some bullets reached Manuel, who had stopped in front of a cigarette machine in the company of a friend.

The young man, wounded in the side, was taken to the hospital and subjected to two surgeries to stop the bleeding and remove the bullet that had stopped on a vertebra.

The father: Manuel wants to go home
"He heard about the paralysis but he did not cry," Manuel Bortuzzo's father, who is at the San Camillo hospital where his son is hospitalized, told reporters. "I promised him he would return to living like a normal person," he added. Then he explained: "This morning they removed the tubes, he woke up and told me: I don't feel anything anymore. He would like to go home, he is aware of his situation and will soon be transferred to a rehabilitation clinic".