Pope dedicates few words to family of missing girl in Vatican

Pope Francis today reminded Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared 40 years ago and whose case is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in Italy when expressing her “closeness” to the family of what is known as “the girl from the Vatican”.

“These days it is 40 years since the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi. I want to take advantage of this circumstance to once again express your closeness to his relatives, first of all to the mother and assure her of my prayers,” the pontiff said at the end of the Sunday angelic prayer.

“I extend my memory to all the families that bear mourning for a lost loved one. added.

Among the thousands of believers who gathered in St. Peter’s Square to listen to Francis. There were relatives of the young woman.as did his brother Pietro Orlandi, who expressed the hope that the pope would say a word about Emanuel this Sunday, and organized a demonstration that ended precisely in the Vatican.

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I hope that the Pope will be able to express a few words of hope so that we can come to the truth and To be honest, I have no doubt that they will arrive, because it was he who opened this investigation, which means that there is a will on his part to clarify the situation,” he said. EFE in this Wednesday.

According to Orlandi, These words of the Pope are a “very positive” gesture this may help in the investigation of the disappearance of a young woman on June 22, 1983.

Last Thursday, exactly 40 years after the disappearance, the Vatican justice system said it had found “Some lines of research worth exploring in more detail” when announcing that he had handed over to the prosecutor’s office of Rome all the documentation he had collected over the past months on the case.

Commissioner (Prosecutor) of Justice of the Vatican City State Alessandro Didi, reopened the investigation at the end of 2022, a few months earlier, Rome’s prosecutors had also launched a new investigation last May, after two previous unsuccessful ones.

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Orlandi was a citizen of the Vatican (her father was an employee of the Holy See and lived within the walls of the Vatican) who disappeared at the age of 15 when he left home to take music lessons in Rome. and became one of the greatest mysteries of Italian history.

His disappearance was associated in various journalistic investigations with the attack on John Paul II in 1981 in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican at the hands of the Turkish terrorist Ali Agca, as well as talk of a pedophile network and the della Magliana gang, the Roman mafia of the 70s and 80s.

Although none of the studies yielded results, his family never tired of demanding truth and justice, and Pietro Orlandi, was first heard on 12 April by the Vatican Prosecutor, to whom he gave all the information he had and asked him to interrogate all the cardinals and members of the Curia who might know what had happened.

“This is a huge injustice, especially when known that there are people who know what happenedso I can never accept it even if forty years have passed. Our goal is to get to the bottom of the truth and pay tribute to my sister,” Orlandi told EFE.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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