Rome, March 3. The public prosecutor’s office in Rome received this Friday a request to reopen the investigation into the murder of the intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975, the victim of extortion and not only of a young prostitute, as the official version claims.
The complaint was filed by Pasolini’s former assistant, director David Grieco, and screenwriter Giovanni Giovannetti, through lawyer Stefano Maccioni, who has been dealing with this crime for years, which is still surrounded by questions.
The filmmaker, artist and thinker Pasolini was brutally murdered on the night of November 2, 1975 on the beach of Ostia, on the Roman coast, at the hands of Pino Pelosi, a prostitute who pleaded guilty and was sentenced but who over the years changed versions, until his death in 2017.
Despite the official version, this crime has always been surrounded by doubts and irregularities during the first investigation.
The new complaint, published by the media, calls for an in-depth study of “at least” three genetic remains found at the scene of the crime and still unidentified.
He maintains that that night Pasolini and Pelosi were not alone on the beach, but that the thinker was able to go to the place of his death to collect tapes of the film he was finalizing, “Salò e le 120 giornate di Sodoma”, which had been stolen. .
The film, a raw and controversial criticism of the bourgeoisie and fascism, was finally released posthumously, after his assassination.
The thesis of extortion, that he would have gone to Ostia to pay to recover his tapes, was supported by several personalities in Rome in the 70s, such as one of the leaders of the local mafia, the Magliana Band, Maurizio Abbatino.
On December 16, the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission highlighted this reason in a report that included various testimonies. EFE
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