the official thesis on the death of Pasolini called into question

Dn the night of November 1 to 2, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini the writer, director, disturbing intellectual figure of Italy of the “years of lead” was assassinated in Ostia, a district of Rome on the coast. According to the official version, he was killed by a young 17-year-old prostitute called “the Frog” who accused Pasolini of attempted rape. In the first instance, he was sentenced for homicide in competition with strangers but he became the sole culprit on appeal.

The Anti-Mafia Commission now asserts that we cannot be satisfied with this sexual crime alone, in which no one believes, moreover, because the investigation was totally botched. Many journalists, writers, filmmakers have written on the subject. The Anti-Mafia Commission actually interrogated a mafioso, a member of the Banda della Magliana, the most dangerous mafia in Rome born around the time of Pasolini’s assassination, and this man, but also others (an editor, a policeman at the time), claim that Pasolini was lured into a trap to be murdered.

His murder could be linked to the theft of the original films of certain scenes from his last film, Salo or the 120 days of Sodom. A film he cared about so much that he went to Ostia to pick up his reels. It would therefore be a premeditated murder.

Towards a reopening of the investigation?

The anti-Mafia commission of the new legislature could set up a new commission of inquiry, and its powers are substantial. One of the Pasolini family’s lawyers is calling for the investigation to be reopened and has launched an online petition. Because we are in fact getting closer to the thesis supported by many: we wanted to silence Pasolini, he the subversive who denounced the compromises of the politicians in power Christian Democracy with the neo-fascists, responsible for the attacks of the years of lead, this period of extreme tension in Italy. Pasolini wrote that he knew. He knew and he died!