Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 5th March 1922 -
Lido di Ostia, 2nd November 1975) was an Italian poet, journalist,
film-maker, scriptwriter, actor, songwriter and writer. It is
considered one of the major Italian artists and intellectuals of
20th century. Gifted with an exceptional cultural versatili
Philippe S�clier: Born in 1958, the journalist Philippe S�clier, is
now devoting himself to photography and images. In 2001 he
published "H�tel Puerto" (Images en Manoeuvres edition), a
photographic book on harbors and cargo boats. This work has been
exhibited in numerours galleries both in France and abroad.
Twentieth Anniversary of His Murder
Pasolini was murdered by being run over several times with his
own car, dying on 2 November 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome.
Multiple bones in his body had up to that point been broken and his
testicles crushed by what appeared to be a metal bar. His body had
been partially burned, the autopsy report revealed, by gasoline
after the point of death. It has long been considered to have been
a mafia-style revenge killing, extremely unlikely for one person to
have carried out. Pasolini was buried in Casarsa, in his beloved
Friuli.
Giuseppe Pelosi, a seventeen-year-old male prostitute, who was
incidentally less physically powerful than the director, was
arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. Twenty-nine years
later, on 7 May 2005, he retracted his confession, which he said
was made under the threat of violence to his family. He claimed
that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the
murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".
Other evidence uncovered in 2005 pointed to Pasolini having been
murdered by an extortionist. Testimony by Pasolini's friend Sergio
Citti indicated that some of the rolls of film from Sal� had been
stolen, and that Pasolini had been going to meet with the thieves
after a visit to Stockholm, 2 November 1975.Despite the Roman
police's reopening of the murder case following Pelosi's statement
of May 2005, the judges charged with investigating it determined
the new elements insufficient for them to continue the inquiry.
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