During the years, doubts on this mystery never faded and new elements have come to light, also through the voice of Pelosi himself. An interview with Pelosi released on the 12th of September and written by Giuseppe Lo Bianco and Sandra Rizza, shed new light on the murder. During the interview, Pelosi asserts that a death commando appeared in a second vehicle, a FIAT, and that they followed Pasolini and Pelosi to the beach, this being where the murderers decided to make their move.
It was argued that young Pelosi could only witness the event in horror. Pasolini was killed the day after his return from Stockholm, where he had met Ingmar Bergman and others in the Swedish cinematic avant-garde, and given an interview to L'Espresso magazine. In it, he addressed his favorite theme: "I consider consumerism to be a worse form of fascism than the classic variety.
Pasolini's view of new totalitarianism whereby materialism was destroying the culture of Italy. But his critique had been, for months before the murder, more specific. He had singled out television as an influence, predicting the rise and power of a type such as media-mogul-turned-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi long before taking office.
It was argued that young Pelosi could only witness the event in horror. If Pelosi is to be believed, the motive for such a calculated murder can be traced to the book Pasolini was writing at that time. Petrolio, as he named it, was supposed to reveal new elements regarding the death of Enrico Mattei , an Italian public administrator and politician, who also died under strange circumstances on the 27 th of October Apparently, what eventually played in favour of the reopening was the finding of inedited notes written by Pasolini revealing important secrets of s and 70s Italian politics.
The interest around the case and the figure of Pasolini spiked up. In , the movie Pasolini , directed by Abel Ferrara, hit cinemas around the world. Even though Grieco refused to collaborate with Ferrara, the proposal awakened in him the desire to speak up once more about the tragic demise of his friend.
Once again, documents related to his last book, Petrolio , published incomplete and postumous, are named as a possible reason behind his murder. Surprisingly, the DNA did not correspond neither to that of the artist, nor to that of his alleged killer, Pino Pelosi. Again, a spine-chilling vindication: these were the so-called "years of lead" in Italy, culminating in the bombing of Bologna station five years after Pasolini's death by neo-fascists working with the secret services, killing 82 people.
I was a student in turbulent Florence in , returning every year thereafter and affiliated to a radical organisation called Lotta Continua Struggle Continues ; and I well remember Lotta Continua's newspaper taking contributions from Pasolini, though his relationship to the radical movements spawned by was ambiguous.
He had identified with police officers against student rioters because, he said, they were "sons of the poor" attacked by bourgeois "daddy's boys". So it was that, in the wake of the murder in , those close to Pasolini saw the hand of power behind his killing. It would not have been a first: prominent leftists were often attacked or killed; feminist Franca Rame, who would marry the anarchist playwright Dario Fo, was gang-raped by neo-fascists, urged by the Carabinieri.
Members of Pasolini's family and circle of friends, and the writers Oriana Fallaci and Enzo Siciliano raised possible political motives for the killing and produced evidence that contradicted Pelosi's confession, such as a green sweater found in the car that belonged neither to Pasolini nor Pelosi, and Pasolini's bloody handprint on its roof there were barely any bloodstains on Pelosi.
Motorcycle riders and another car had been seen following the Alfa Romeo. In January an article appeared in La Stampa that turned conspiracy theory into a hard lead. It concerned the death in , in a plane crash, of Enrico Mattei, head of the ENI energy giant, made into a famous film by Francesco Rosi, with whom Pasolini had worked.
The article's author, Filippo Ceccarelli — one of Italy's expert political journalists — cited inquiries by a judge, Vincenzo Calia, into political intrigue within ENI, which found the plane had been shot down. Judge Calia implicated the man who succeeded Mattei, Eugenio Cefis, in cahoots with political leaders.
The report cited a journalist who had worked on The Mattei Affair film with Rosi, Mauro di Mauro, who was kidnapped and disappeared without trace. Long before Calia's investigation, published in , Pasolini had worked on the posthumously released book Petrolio , featuring barely disguised versions of Mattei and Cefis, and revealing knowledge of how the ENI scandal and murder went to the heart of power and the P2 Masonic lodge, of which Cefis was a founder member.
Then, in , the floodgates opened. Finally, some have pointed out that, through the testimonies of the managers of Biondo Tevere, the identikit of the man who was in the company of Pasolini that night did not correspond at all with the appearance of Pino Pelosi.
However it went, the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini has never been fully clarified. Like many other obscure events that marked the history of the Italian state during the s. Share the article:. Paolo Melissi.
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