1976
July 10, Rome
Vittorio Occorsio, 46 years old, magistrate, Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Court of Rome

As part of the trial for the Piazza Fontana massacre, on 31 March 1971, Vittorio Occorsio issued an arrest warrant against Clemente Graziani and 39 other defendants, all belonging to the far-right political movement Ordine Nuovo, on charges of reconstituting the Fascist Party. Among these was the MSI parliamentarian, Sandro Saccucci, already involved in the investigations for the so-called Borghese coup. This is what Vittorio Occorsio exposes and makes him the most isolated of the magistrates of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office.
The opening of the new trial against Ordine Nuovo on 6 June 1973 brought Vittorio Occorsio, public prosecutor in the courtroom, back to the front page. Threatening writings begin to appear on the walls of the judicial city. The signature is the double-headed axe.
The first degree judgment against Ordine Nuovo ends with a conviction, issued on 21 November 1973 against around thirty Ordinovists, many of whom were involved in various trials which dealt with the most delicate facts for the maintenance of the democratic system of the Village.
With a decree of the Ministry of the Interior dated 23 November 1973, the political movement “Ordine Nuovo” was dissolved.
Vittorio Occorsio was the first to deal, starting from April 1976, with the secret Masonic lodge P2, starting to investigate the relationships between neo-fascist terrorism, freemasonry and deviant SIFAR apparatus. The investigative activity had already seen him involved in the investigation of the two failed coups d’état: the Solo Plan and the Borghese coup. He launched an investigation into the relationships between some members of P2, black terrorism and criminal organizations such as the Marseillaise Gang dedicated to kidnappings.
A conviction developed in him at the end of the investigations:
“I am sure that behind the kidnappings there are deviant Masonic organizations and of course representatives of the political world. All this is part of the strategy of tension: to sow terror among Italians to push them to ask for a strong government, capable of restoring order.”
[Occorsio’s reflection to his friend and colleague Ferdinando Imposimato]
The attack
It is July 10, 1976 in Via Mogadiscio, Rome. Vittorio Occorsio leaves the garage of his house, aboard his Fiat 125. He is headed to the Court – VII criminal section – for his shift, on his last day of work before the holidays. The city is still invaded by writings against the magistrate, who has no longer had an escort for over a month,
The car stops to enter via del Giuba; two bursts of machine gun fire reach the car: the first, aimed at the windshield, hits Vittorio Occorsio head-on, the second – from close range and while the magistrate is trying to escape from the car – kills him. More than 30 shell casings were found at the scene.
On the body of Dr. Subsequently, inside the car the investigators found flyers with the heading: “New Order Political Movement”. Under the symbol of the double ax the subtitle: “Bourgeois justice stops at life imprisonment, revolutionary justice goes further”.
Vittorio Occorsio is the second magistrate to fall at the hands of terrorists; he was the first to be killed by exponents of right-wing subversion. Another magistrate will remain a victim of the murderous resurgence of fascist subversion: the Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Rome, Dr. Mario Amato, the one who will “continue” the work of Vittorio Occorsio, and will share the same situation of isolation and the same tragic end.