The Vatican stated Monday it has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican worker, months after a brand new Netflix documentary presupposed to shed new mild on the case and weeks after her household requested the Italian Parliament to take up the trigger.
The Vatican prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, opened a file on Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance, based mostly partly “on the requests made by the family in various places,” stated Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni.
A lawyer for the Orlandi household, Laura Sgro, stated she had no impartial affirmation of the event, which was first reported by Italian companies Adnkronos, LaPresse and ANSA. She famous that her final Vatican submitting on the case got here in 2019, when the Vatican opened two tombs of their cemetery after Sgro acquired a mysterious tip. The dig turned up no new info.
Orlandi vanished June 22, 1983 after leaving her household’s Vatican City condominium to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay worker of the Holy See.
Her disappearance has been one of many Vatican’s enduring mysteries, and through the years has been linked to every little thing from the plot to kill St. John Paul II and a monetary scandal involving the Vatican financial institution to Rome’s prison underworld.
The current four-part Netflix documentary “Vatican Girl” explored these eventualities and likewise offered new testimony from a buddy who stated Emanuela had informed her per week earlier than she disappeared {that a} high-ranking Vatican cleric had made sexual advances towards her.
In addition, Sgro and Orlandi’s brother Pietro introduced a brand new initiative final month to convene a parliamentary fee of inquest into the case. For 40 years, he has sought to search out solutions in his sister’s disappearance, saying that he believes the Holy See is hiding info within the case that may implicate high-ranking members of the clergy.
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Three earlier initiatives within the Italian Parliament have didn’t get off the bottom, however Sgro and opposition lawmaker Carlo Calenda argued that the Vatican could not think about the case closed when there have been so many questions left unanswered.
“We are a great secular nation that treats the Vatican with respect, but this case certainly cannot be considered closed in this way,” Calenda stated final month.
Speaking to RaiNews24 on Monday, Pietro Orlandi known as Diddi’s resolution a “positive step” that the Vatican has apparently modified its thoughts, gotten over its resistance and now will go over the case from the beginning.