Who killed Pasolini? They call for an investigation into the murder of the director, talking about a “death trap”

Who killed Pier Paolo Pasolini? With a request submitted today Friday to the prosecutor’s office in Rome, the lawyers by director David Grieco they asked for the investigation of the case of the murder of the Italian writer, poet and director, 48 years later.

The leading Italian intellectual was assassinated in the Rome seaside resort of Ostia on November 2, 1975.

The declassification request calls for further investigations into the DNA found by the carabinieri at the scene of the murder following new investigations carried out in 2010.

The lawyers of the Italian director consider that the murder was not committed, after a love affair, by the young man at the time, Giuseppe (Pino) ​​Pelosi, who was also the only one convicted in the case. They are convinced that at the same point there were at least three other people.

According to statements by members of organized crime in the greater Rome area, after all, the real reason for Pasolini’s presence in Ostia was allegedly completely different, and related to his attempt to recover part of the material of the film “120 Days in Sodom” , which had been stolen from him. In the 2016 film La Macchinazione, David Greco details the theft of a large part of Pasolini’s film.

The request filed today states that “it was, however, a death trap and Pasolini died in an ambush, after a barbaric beating”.

The death of Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered. He was run over several times by his own car, and part of his body was burned with gasoline after his death. The crime for a long time was considered like a Mafia-style revenge murder, and it is unlikely that it was made by a single person. Pelosi (1958–2017), then 17, was caught driving Pasolini’s car and confessed to the murder. He was convicted in 1976. In 2005, he retracted his confession, and claimed that strangers had killed Pasolini. He said he was forced to confess because there were threats against him and his family. The Pasolini murder investigation was reopened after Pelosi’s impeachment. There were indications that the murder was carried out by extortionists, who had stolen some reels of the film Salo or 120 Days in Sodom and Pasolini planned to meet them in Stockholm. The judges ruled that the new evidence was not enough to reopen the case.

He is buried in Cazarsa, in his beloved Friuli.