A new twist in the case of the missing girl in the Vatican angered her family
- July 16, 2023
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A big stir was caused by the “exclusive” of the Italian TV channel “La7”. in the case of Emanuela Orlandi, The 15-year-old girl who disappeared on June 22,
A big stir was caused by the “exclusive” of the Italian TV channel “La7”. in the case of Emanuela Orlandi, The 15-year-old girl who disappeared on June 22, 1983 in the Vatican and inspired Netflix to create a documentary series on the case, prompting Pope Francis to order a new investigation.
According to the channel, among the documents handed over by the Vatican’s prosecutor Alessandro Diddi to his Roman colleagues as part of the latest investigations, a “new hypothesis” appears. with the uncle of the Orlandi family as a suspect.
In particular, according to this information, Emanuela’s uncle, Mario Meneguzzi, now dead, could have been ‘sexually harassed’ to the sister of the missing woman, Natalina Orlandi, information that the Vatican prosecutor allegedly learned from correspondence at the time between Cardinal Agostino Casaroli (then Secretary of State of the Vatican) and the confessor of the Orlandi family.
Pietro Orlandi, the brother of a missing young woman, leads the family’s fight for the truth. expressed anger at having “leaked the secret of the confession” and also specifying that on the day of Emanuela’s disappearance, her uncle was on vacation.
“The first thing I thought was that it was carrion. I didn’t expect them to sink so low.” Orlandi denounced at a press conference held at the Rome headquarters of the Foreign Press Association.
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Natalina, accompanied by family lawyer Laura Sgro, categorically denied this hypothesis and explained that “There was no sexual abuse” but “simple verbal courtship”.
“In 1978, we worked together, and my uncle made simple verbal courtship, like small gifts, but when he realized that he had no chance, he stopped.. I only told my boyfriend Andrea, today my husband and my confessor father.” Natalia assured.
Missing girl’s sister condemned this “leak” for the damage done to his aunt, Meneguzzi’s widow, and his cousins.
Natalina recalled that she was received by Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who at that time held second place in the Vatican Secretariat of State, and today disgraced by a financial scandal, and that sheHe warned him that if his files were exposed, his confession would also be made known..
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“They point the finger at my uncle, but Why don’t they go against those three or four pedophile cardinals?” he lamented, to later accuse the Vatican of undermining the commission of inquiry in the Italian parliament.
“I think the Vatican is trying not to take responsibility and pass it on to other people (…) They don’t want a commission because it will come out of everything,” said Pietro Orlandi, to later ask the pope to “take action on this matter.”
Given this information, the Vatican denied that the secrecy of the confession had been violated, but without details about the statements of the confessor of the priest of the Orlandi family.
For its part, the prosecutor’s office of the Vatican assured that actively cooperating with the Italian authorities competent to clarify the case of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi 40 years ago.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni published a note in which he explained that “it was in this spirit that on April 19 the Vatican magistrates confidentially handed over to Italy, protected by the secrecy of the investigation, available case documentationincluding collection in previous months in the course of research activities.
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“The Holy See shares the desire of the family get to the truth of the facts and for this, he hopes that all research hypotheses will be explored,” the note adds.
But it is also specified that regarding the news about these last days, in which Emanuela’s uncle was involved, “it should be noted that the correspondence in question clearly indicates that there was no violation of the sacrament of confession.”
Orlandi was a young Vatican who went missing in 1983. when he went to music lessons in Rome, a case that has become one of the great mysteries of Italian history as his family continues their relentless search.
At the end of last year Vatican Justice Reopens Investigation and handed over his documents to the prosecutor’s office of Rome, which is also investigating this unknown person.
The disappearance, recently included in the Netflix documentary Vatican Girl, has been linked to countless theories in the past, starting with possible involvement in the 1981 attack on John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square by a Turkish terrorist. Ali Agca as a pedophile network or Malyan groupRoman mafia of the 70s and 80s.
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(According to information from EFE And Aristegui News)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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