Overview
- Turin’s questore, Massimo Gambino, ruled that Domenico Belfiore’s funerary rites must be strictly private with no cortege, halting plans for a church service in Chivasso on February 24.
- Belfiore, 74, died of a heart attack after years under house arrest and had been serving a life sentence for organizing the 1983 killing of Turin prosecutor Bruno Caccia, a crime he never admitted.
- Paola Caccia said she supports the ban on public celebrations and lamented that Belfiore’s death closes another chance to learn the full truth about her father’s murder.
- The anti‑mafia group Libera and its founder Don Luigi Ciotti opposed normal church rites for Belfiore and urged respect for the victim’s family.
- The bishop of Ivrea defended holding prayers by invoking divine mercy, underscoring a split within the Church over how to handle rites for a convicted killer.