Italy's new government sworn in amid gunfire On April 28, at 11.40 am Italian time, a man in a suit and tie approached the Chigi Palace, where the ministers of the new coalition government were about to arrive after taking the oath in the Quirinal Palace (the residence of the President of Italy), a man in a suit and tie approached and opened fire on the carabinieri who were on the square. As a result, one of them was wounded in the neck, and the other in both legs.