The murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975 may have been linked to the theft of the original film of some scenes of his movie 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom', which was still in production at the time, according to a report by the parliamentary anti-mafia commission released on Friday.
The writer-filmmaker may have gone to the beach at the Rome
seaside district of Ostia, where he was killed, to try to
recover the film, the report said.
The commission said "major criminal gangs," such as the Banda
della Magliana, may have been involved in the murder.
The report said it was unlikely that justice would ever be
brought to Pasolini 's killers but argued that it was still
important to get to the truth for the history books.
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