Editing Pier Paolo Pasolini (section)

== {{anchor|Murder}}Murder ==
Pasolini was murdered on 2 November 1975 at a beach in [[Ostia (Rome)|Ostia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ilglobo.com.au/news/33313/the-violent-death-of-inconvenient-intellect-pier-paolo-pasolini/|title=The violent death of "inconvenient" intellect, Pier Paolo Pasolini — Italianmedia|website=ilglobo.com.au|access-date=October 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811183745/https://ilglobo.com/news/the-violent-death-of-inconvenient-intellect-pier-paolo-pasolini-33313/|archive-date=August 11, 2020}}</ref> Almost unrecognizable, Pasolini was savagely beaten and also run over several times with his own car. Multiple bones were broken and his [[testicles]] were crushed by what appeared to have been a metal bar.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Barber |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Barber (writer) |date=July 17, 2020 |title=The Massacre Game Pasolini: Terminal Film, Text, Words |publisher=Elektron Ebooks |isbn=9781909923072}}</ref> An [[autopsy]] revealed that his body had been partially burned with [[gasoline]] after his death. The crime was long viewed as a [[Mafia]]-style [[revenge killing]], one that was extremely unlikely to have been carried out by only one person. Pasolini was buried in [[Casarsa]].

Giuseppe "Pino" Pelosi (1958–2017), then 17 years old, was caught driving Pasolini's car and confessed to the murder. He was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison in 1976,<ref name=":0" /> initially with "unknown others", but this phrase was later removed from the verdict.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/who-really-killed-pier-paolo-pasolini-venice-film-festival-biennale-abel-ferrara |title=Who really killed Pier Paolo Pasolini? |last=Vulliamy |first=Ed |date=24 August 2014 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=12 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="independent">{{cite news |last=Gumbell |first=Andrew |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/who-killed-pasolini-1602381.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/who-killed-pasolini-1602381.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Who killed Pasolini? |work=[[The Independent]] |date=23 September 1995 |access-date=25 May 2015}}</ref> Twenty-nine years later, on 7 May 2005, Pelosi retracted his confession, which he said had been made under the threat of violence to his family.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Who really murdered Pier Paolo Pasolini? |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c42a46b1-5e3e-44d8-af6e-81831772b7af |website=Financial Times}}</ref> He claimed that three people "with a [[Southern Italy|southern]] accent" had committed the murder, while further insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4529877.stm|title=Pasolini death inquiry reopened |last=Cataldi |first=Benedetto |date=5 May 2005 |website=[[BBC]]}}</ref>

Other evidence uncovered in 2005 suggested that Pasolini had been murdered by an [[extortion]]ist. Testimony by his friend Sergio Citti indicated that some of the [[rolls of film]] from ''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'' had been stolen, and that Pasolini planned to meet with and negotiate its return from the thieves on 2 November 1975 following a visit to [[Stockholm]], Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |title=Asesinato de Pasolini, nueva investigación |url=http://www.razon.com.mx/spip.php?article29280 |work=La Razón |access-date=4 July 2012 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702125218/http://www.razon.com.mx/spip.php?article29280 |archive-date=2 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pasolini de nuevo |url=http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/impreso/8742252 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629014013/http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/impreso/8742252 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2012 |work=Sentido contrario |publisher=Grupo Milenio |access-date=4 July 2012 |author=Héctor Rivera|language=it|date=28 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) |url=http://www.cinematismo.com/biografias/pier-paolo-pasolini-1922-1975/ |publisher=Cinematismo |access-date=4 July 2012 |language=it |archive-date=12 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812102235/http://www.cinematismo.com/biografias/pier-paolo-pasolini-1922-1975/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ouU8zYEgmXMJ:rassegnastampa.mef.gov.it/mefinternazionale/PDF/2010/2010-04-02/2010040215372121.pdf+muerte+de+pasolini-+rollos+robados&hl=es&gl=co&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg_Hz3kNu-APpn4-A1D42JjsI01jWmCc2RU0zb8ji3iX5Me-8LlK1uyuIo3mo0-NebUSyoFpa3dPHTIiOtQfs1b07D-_EhM_NYQjqCIObthlxA86VQDWnhZ7wpjQmFbzWDkBQuy&sig=AHIEtbROrSJpidVdGjEyfEHWL7gELlXFTw Google Drive Viewer]. Google, 2 April 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2014.</ref> Citti's investigation uncovered additional evidence, including a bloody wooden stick and an eyewitness who said he saw a group of men pull Pasolini from the car.<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="independent"/> The Rome police reopened the murder as a [[cold case]] after Pelosi's retraction, but the [[investigative magistrate]]s responsible for the investigation found that the new elements were insufficient to justify a continued inquiry. As of 2023, a plea to reopen the case was filed based on [[DNA profiling|DNA analysis]] and links the murder to the [[Banda della Magliana]], a [[organized crime in Italy|criminal organisation]] with close ties to [[Armed, far-right organizations in Italy|far-right terrorism]], as the probable culprits.<ref name=":0" />