The possibility, perhaps the last, of arriving at a judicial truth about the death of Pier Paolo is linked to a request of several hundred pages. Pasolini which took place at the Idroscalo di Ostia, on the coast of Rome, on November 2, 1975. A document that from today is under the attention of the magistrates of the Capitoline and drafted by the lawyer Stefano Maccioni on behalf of the director David Grieco and the screenwriter Giovanni Giovannetti.
The founding element of the request is linked to the three DNA profiles identified in 2010 by the Carabinieri of the RIS on the evidence found at the crime scene. The Roman prosecutors also brought to their attention the statements of Maurizio Abbatino, a member of the Banda della Magliana, regarding the "motive" for the murder and in particular the 'pizzas' from the film 'Salò, the 120 days of Sodom' that had been stolen from Pasolini. The appellants have no doubts: that night at the Idroscalo in Ostia, Pino Pelosi, the 17-year-old recognized as responsible for the murder with a final sentence of 9 years and 7 months, was not alone.
“There are at least three traces, three ‘photographs’ of people – says Maccioni – and this justifies why, after almost 50 years, it is still possible to arrive at a judicial truth. A truth that would be based on scientific data, on the presence of three genetic profiles: from here we must start to carry out the investigations to ascertain who they belong to”. The work on the identified DNA had also been carried out in the investigation that was later archived. These were tests carried out on the clothes that Pasolini was wearing on the night of the tragedy that led to the identification of five traces of DNA to which, however, it was not possible to give “a name”.
"In that investigation, an important but partial work was done, about 30 DNA samples were examined but today it is time to do more widespread checks, also taking into account the statements of Abbatino, known as Crispino, who gave the Anti-Mafia Commission a justification for why Pasolini went to the Idroscalo in Ostia: he was not there to have a casual sexual relationship with Pelosi, with whom the writer had been having a relationship for several months, but to get back, in exchange for money, the 'pizzas' from 'Salò' that had been stolen from him and which he cared so much about". Crispino said that he had carried out the theft of the 'pizzas from the film on commission.
The films were stolen on August 75, XNUMX, from a warehouse in Cinecittà. The Anti-Mafia Commission documents also refer to the research work of journalist Simona Zecchi and in particular her conversation with Nicola Longo, a former policeman who had later served with the SISMI. The former agent allegedly told her that he had played an important role in recovering the stolen material: “it was a theft that was at the origin of the night-time meeting at the Idroscalo in Ostia in which the poet and director lost his life. According to this reconstruction, in that circumstance, Pasolini promised himself he could recover the original film that included some scenes from his film which otherwise would have been irretrievably lost”.
For Maccioni, Grieco and Giovannetti, Pasolini was essentially "led into a trap in Ostia, using Pelosi as a sort of bait, and there he was attacked to death. In the request we provide many elements, many pieces that the magistrates must put together. The prosecutors must summon Abbatino". For the three, the instigators of the assassination are to be found in the novel Petrolio, Pasolini's unfinished work that was published only in 1992. "It's written there, the names of the instigators are there", says Grieco.
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