ROME (AP) — Two Italian paramilitary police officers were shot and wounded Sunday in a crowded square outside the premier's office in Rome as Italy's new leader was being sworn in a kilometer (half-mile) away.
An AP television producer saw two wounded officers, one of them lying on the pavement with blood pouring out of his neck. Seven bullets lay on the square.
The Italian news agency ANSA said the assailant, described in reports as a man dressed in a suit and tie, was detained by police.
The shooting came just as Premier Enrico Letta and his Cabinet took their oaths in the Quirinal presidential office a day after he nailed down a coalition deal between his center-left forces and the conservative bloc of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
