This weekend marked fifty years since neo-fascist group Ordine Nuovo assassinated magistrate Vittorio Occorsio, whose investigations into the group and its links to P2 financier Licio Gelli made him a target. Fifty years ago this week, Italian investigating magistrate Vittorio Occorsio, was gunned down in a Rome street by fascist gunmen he had been investigating. Occorsio was shot 32 times outside his home by Pierluigi Concutelli, the military chief of Ordine Nuovo, the neo-fascist terror group founded by Pino Rauti. Memorial service The event was marked on Friday by a memorial service addressed by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who praised Occorsio as a public servant who “defended the values of the rule of law and democracy with courage, rigour and a sense of duty,” and offered condolences to his family. Leaflets left on his body claimed the killing in the name of Ordine Nuovo, accusing Occorsio of “democratic persecution.” His real offence was doing his job too well: as a prosecutor in Rome, Occorsio had built the case that led the interior ministry to formally dissolve Ordine Nuovo in 1973 under laws banning the reconstitution of the fascist party. But he was pushing further, looking into the group’s links with the P2 Masonic lodge and its financier Licio Gelli. Occorsio’s murder was the first assassination of a magistrate by the neo-fascist right, and it marked a shift in strategy: Ordine Nuovo’s remnants moved from indiscriminate bombings to targeted killing of state officials who threatened them.
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