Pierluigi Concutelli died today at his home in Rome (where he was held under house arrest). He had been ill for some time and in 2011 his sentence was suspended for health reasons. Concutelli, 79, is a black terrorist sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of judge Vittorio Occorsio, who was killed on the morning of July 10, 1976, on the street in Rome, within meters of his home.
Pierluigi Concutelli was sentenced to three life sentences for as many murders. However, he has been released from prison since 2011 for health reasons (he had three strokes). But Ordine Nuovo, the military “commander” of the far-right group who killed judge Vittorio Occorsio, never backed down: “While we respect the victims, we do not deny that historical period and this particular political context,” he said. He left prison to settle in Idroscalo di Ostia.
Concutelli was born in Rome but moved to Sicily as a young man: it was there that he became interested in politics, first by joining the Fuan, the university organization of the Italian Social Movement, and then approaching far-right extras. -Parliamentary groups. He joined Ordine Nuovo in the early seventies and was one of the organizers of the kidnapping of banker Luigi Mariano, whose release was paid a ransom of 280 million lira on July 23, 1975. Searched by the Palermo prosecutor’s office, he fled first to Rome and then to Spain. In 1976 he returned to Italy, where on July 10 he killed Deputy Prosecutor Vittorio Occorsio, who in 1972 was a prosecutor in the case against certain leaders of Ordine Nuovo, who was accused of rebuilding the fascist party and was later convicted. Concutelli was arrested in 1977 in a hiding place on the via dei Foraggi, in the historic center of Rome.
He was sentenced to three life sentences for both the murder of Occorsio and the murder in prison of two far-right militants accused of collaborating with judges Carmine Palladino and Ermanno Buzzi. He was released in 2011 after 34 years in prison and was given a suspended sentence for serious health reasons (he had cerebral ischemia in 2009).
Murder of Judge Occorsio
On July 10, 1976, in Rome, Judge Vittorio Occorsio was killed by a hail of bullets on his way to work in his small car. Occorsio conducted important investigations against black terrorism and neo-fascist organizations and was therefore targeted by armed formations. He had participated in the cause of the Piazza Fontana massacre and the trials of the neo-fascist-inspired terrorist movement Ordine Nuovo.
Occorsio’s murder took place over Mogadiscio and over Giuba at the crossroads in the Trieste district, a few tens of meters from his home. Occorsio was due to go on vacation in three days and awaited the return of his colleague Imposimato. A few days before the assassination, Licio had interrogated Gelli, and his companion was suddenly removed without any explanation either to his family members or to the judge himself.
Before escaping, Occorsio’s assassins took the file on the seizures and his briefcase with a document showing the World Masonic Relief Organization (Ompam) purchase of a building in Rome for eight million dollars, the total amount of ransom. He paid for the kidnappings of Albert Bergamelli (French criminal, founder of the Roman underworld called the “Marseille Clan” operating in Italy in the 1970s). Three months later, Occorsio’s source, Nicola D’Agostino, the boss of Canolo (Reggio Calabria), was also killed.
Source: Today IT
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