He had been ill for some time: after spending almost half of his life in prison, 'the Commander' had his sentence suspended in 2011 for health reasons. Pierluigi Concutelli, the black terrorist sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Judge Occorsio, died in Rome, at his home. Concutelli, who would have turned 80 in June, had been among the leaders of Ordine Nuovo before turning to armed struggle.

The Ordine Nuovo and the murder of Judge Occorsio

Concutelli joined Ordine Nuovo after a brief experience in the National Front of Junio Valerio Borghese. With Stefano Delle Chiaie and Paolo Signorelli, in 1975 he tried to give life to a new political subject that should have been born from the merger of Ordine Nuovo with Avanguardia Nazionale, a project that later foundered. The following year, in 1976, the murder of Judge Occorsio, committed by the 'Commander' together with the former para Gianfranco Ferro, who then, arrested, will make his name.

"We considered the Roman judge one of the cogs of that mechanism that had been set in motion to crush us, to cut off from Italian political life most of the neo-fascists", he will later tell in the autobiographical "Io, l'uomo nero" (written with the journalist Giuseppe Ardica), explaining that Occorsio "had been and was the owner of all the uncomfortable investigations of the period: including, of course, the one on the Ordine Nuovo Political Movement of the early seventies. His name always came up."

Arrest in the center of Rome in February 1977

In front of journalists and cameras, he declares himself "a political soldier and therefore a political prisoner". And in fact in prison Concutelli will never deny the armed struggle, indeed claiming the paternity of the murders as executor and military instigator without any repentance. In prison he commits two other crimes: he kills Ermanno Buzzi, convicted in the first instance for the massacre of Piazza della Loggia, and Carmine Palladino, lieutenant of Stefano Delle Chiaie in the National Vanguard, both considered informers.

After several failed escape attempts and almost 25 years in maximum security, in 2002 Concutelli obtained semi-freedom to work outside prison, a benefit suspended when he was found in possession of a minimum amount of hashish.

In 2009 a cerebral ischemia will prevent him, from that moment on, to speak and feed independently. For this reason, in 2011, he was granted the suspension of his prison sentence.