The funeral Fabrizio Piscitelli, a
leading member of an 'ultra' group of hardcore fans of Serie A
side Lazio who was murdered in Rome last week, did not take
place as scheduled on Tuesday after the family refused to take
part in protest at an order for the ceremony to be strictly
private.
On Monday an administrative court rejected an appeal against
a ban in him having a public funeral for reasons of "order and
security".
As a result, Piscitelli's widow said the family would not go.
Piscitelli, who was nicknamed Diabolik, was killed in what
appears to have been a profession hit with a shot to the back of
his neck.
Investigators are not ruling out any hypotheses but they are
primarily focused on looking into the possibility that an
organized-crime clan was behind the murder and not necessarily
an Italian one.
The 53-year-old had a criminal record for drugs trafficking
and the finance police seized two million euros in assets from
him in 2016.
According to a police order, the funeral was meant to take
place at 6am at Rome's Flaminio cemetery.
But the man's relatives did not turn up at a hospital
mortuary for the transfer of the body and it remained there.
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