“The recognition by advocates of justice of the existence of the Emanuele Orlandi case in the Vatican is an important step towards the truth. In fact, it is a real fact that the Vatican carried out activities related to the kidnapping of Emanuela Orlandi, which it never reported to either the Orlandi family or the Roman prosecutor’s office,” he explained to the publication this Thursday EFE family attorney Laura Sgro.

He added that “this circumstance, on the other hand, causes great disappointment to the Orlandi family, given that in 2012 the Roman magistrates carried out a second investigation into the kidnapping of Emanuela and the judges themselves could, with a view to loyal cooperation, benefit from Vatican Conclusions“.

While respecting the secrecy of the investigation, it should be noted that the Orlandi family has been asking for a copy of this file to be reviewed and retrieved since 2017, while the Vatican investigation was not opened until January 2023, some six years later.

And he considered “therefore it is legitimate to ask: who preserved this record until now, considering that several times in the above-mentioned years the Vatican authorities have publicly stated that no case exists and that the Emanuela Orlandi case is “closed”?”

The Orlandi family “hopes that clarifying answers will finally be given, given the countless requests sent to the Vatican authorities, and that the moment of truth has indeed arrived” and that “how Prosecutor’s Office of Rome and the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee to act as quickly as possible and demand receipt of this file.”

Over these 40 years, five possible leads to the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi have been considered: trafficking in women“, internal problems of the Orlandi family itself, “solution Vatican abuses“, “the international intrigue with Ali Agca (attacker of St. John Paul II)” or the “economic blackmail” hypothesis associated with the Bank of Ambrosiano and Ior.

EFE