Italian prosecutors reopen inquiry into Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder
Fifty-one years after the writer and filmmaker was killed in Ostia, new proceedings follow the emergence of a previously unheard witness, according to El País.
Italian prosecutors are set to carry out new investigative steps into the 1975 killing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, El País reports, after a witness who had not previously come forward brought new information to light.
The development follows years of work by a lawyer who, according to the newspaper, had already pushed for renewed inquiries into the case in 2010 and again in 2023. Pasolini, the poet, novelist and filmmaker, was found dead on a beach in Ostia in November 1975; a young man was convicted at the time, though doubts about the official account have persisted for decades.
El País gives no further detail on the identity of the new witness, the content of the testimony, or a timeline for the proceedings. No French publication or translation news is mentioned in connection with the reopened case.
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