Two 20-something men who have confessed to shooting by mistake a promising 20-year-old swimmer and paralysing him from the waist down outside a Rome pub on Saturday were aiming to kill, a judge said on Friday. The preliminary investigations judge (GIP) ruled that the men accused of attempted homicide, Lorenzo Marinelli and Daniel Bazzano, should stay in jail.
The judge said that many shots were fired "towards the vital parts of the victim, with the clear intention of killing him, not injuring him".
The men, aged 24 and 25, face a prison term ranging from seven to 20 years for the attack on Manuel Bortuzzo in Rome's Axa district. Prosecutors said the shooting was premeditated because the pair returned to the pub after a scuffle there, bringing with them a pistol they had buried in a field after discovering it by chance about two months ago.
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