Auronzo, a pistol shot goes off: major of the carabinieri wounded in the leg

Night flight to the Treviso hospital for the carabiniere: the weapon he had in his pocket accidentally fired

Auronzo. Wounded in the leg from the shot from the gun in his pocket. The helicopter rescue was up in night flight, the other evening, to rescue the major of the carabinieri in command of the Comelico Alpine Training Center (forestry command, directly dependent on the Carabinieri Center of Selva di Val Gardena, Bolzano).

The most classic of the incidents, the one in Auronzo, which fortunately did not leave very serious repercussions in the wounded: the blow did not sever the femoral artery, although it still caused serious damage to the graduate.

Nothing mysterious, according to the reconstruction carried out by colleagues who intervened immediately after the rescue, despite the fact that the weapon at the center of the lack of control was not that of the ordinance in formal equipment.

The detail would not be an oddity among the members of the police but graduates: many in fact have other guns than the actual ordinance of the body to which they belong, with which they obviously cannot go into service.

The same goes for the commander who, in the evening, seems to have been cleaning that gun in which there would be only one shot left, in addition to the barrel.

There are many hypotheses that can be provided to give an explanation as to why this situation has arisen: a blow, how could it then leave?

Excluding the hypothesis of a voluntary act. The magazine may have been removed but the shot in the barrel remained: there was no safety despite the experts know that such a scenario can cause accidents to explode. Notwithstanding the fact that usually the gun does not fire by itself.

In any case, the injured person will explain what happened once the clinical situation that led to his emergency transfer to the Ca ‘Foncello in Treviso has been overcome. Serious conditions, but which did not endanger the major’s life.

It was the injured person who called for help directly: on the spot the ambulance made a rendezvous with the helicopter which, during the night, finished the rescue at its destination.

Meanwhile, the station carabinieri tried to reconstruct the accident, which was perhaps extremely casual but damned unfortunate.