article_snippet.sent: After texting loved ones that they were OK, employees and lawyers were eventually allowed to trickle out of the tribunal, women first, followed by the men who had employees and lawyers court ID cards checked.
article_snippet.sent: The shooting immediately raised questions about how Judge Gherardo Colombo gained entrance to the Fascist-era courthouse with a weapon, given that visitors must pass through metal detectors.
article_snippet.sent: the Fascist-era courthouse has metal detectors at the four main entrances, but lawyers and courthouse employees with official IDs are regularly waved through without the additional security screen and accredited employees can drive into the internal garage.
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers Mirko and Davide Pupo noted that the metal detector from the lawyers' entrance had been removed several months ago.
article_snippet.sent: Employees who emerged after The shooting suggested that the gunman could easily have gained entrance without passing through the metal detector by entering with his lawyer, though other lawyers said other lawyers clients are routinely told to go in via the public entrance.