One of the three victims of a horror shooting at a café in Rome has been named as a friend of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Far-right leader Ms Meloni posted a picture of herself alongside Nicoletta Golisano on Instagram on Sunday night and wrote: “For me, she will always be beautiful and happy like this. It is not right to die like this.”
On Sunday, the man pulled out a gun and opened fire on a meeting of apartment block residents at a coffee shop in northern Rome, killing three people and seriously injuring four others.
The unnamed suspect, 57, had been in a series of disputes with the residents’ association, a witness told Italy’s Rai News.
“He came into the room, closed the door and shouted ’I’ll kill you all’ and then started to shoot,” Italian news agency Ansa quoted a witness as saying.
Ms Meloni wrote in her post that Ms Golisano leaves her husband Giovanni and a "beautiful" 10-year-old boy, Lorenzo.
The prime minister said a shooting range from which the suspect had taken the gun used in the attack had been closed and placed under investigation by the authorities.
Ms Meloni, Italy's first female prime minister and leader of the country's most right-wing government since the war, added: "The man who killed these three innocent women has been arrested and I hope justice will serve its course soon.
"Yet the word 'justice' will never be attached to this incident. Because it's not right to die like that.
"Nicoletta was happy, and beautiful, in the red dress she bought for her fiftieth birthday party a few weeks ago. For me, she will always be beautiful and happy like this."
The other dead women were named Elisabetta Silenzi and Sabina Sperandio.
The Mayor of Ariccia Gianluca Staccol said in a statement: "I didn't know Elisabetta, but I know her husband well to whom I offered my condolences. Unfortunately, it was a tragic fatality."
He said she leaves behind her husband and two daughters.
Ms Sperandio, 71, was the oldest victim of the massacre.
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri called an emergency security meeting on Monday after what he called “a grave episode of violence that struck our city.”
Speaking in a video interview, one resident said the man was known to board members and had been previously reported to authorities for making threats against local residents.
