The case of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandithe daughter of an employee of the Prefecture of the Papal Household of the Vatican, in 1983 created new tensions and a “heavy” climate in the Vatican, which has also come out in defense of John Paul II after the appearance of an alleged recording on the He is accused of exploiting minors.
“A thought to the memory of John Paul IIthese days the object of unfounded assumptions,” Francis said from the balcony of the Apostolic Palace after the Regina Coeli prayer this Sunday in front of faithful and pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square.
The Pope was probably referring to Pietro OrlandiEmanuela’s brother, who has made it clear that in the years of the pope’s pontificate John Paul II pedophilia cases were recorded.
“They tell me that Wojtyla, from time to time, went out at night with two Polish monsignors and did not exactly go to bless houses.” These were the harsh statements made by Orlandi, the older brother who is conducting the investigation into his sister’s disappearance on the television program “Di martedì” (Tuesday) on the Italian private channel “La7”, in which he showed a recording of an alleged mobster who claims that during his pontificate they took girls to the Vatican to abuse them and that Pope John Paul II knew about it.
Controversial statements that infuriated sectors close to the Polish Pope, generating a stir of such magnitude that it forced Francis to come out in defense of John Paul II.
It is clear that Bergoglio opened the controversial case of Emanuela Orlandi, never before formally dealt with by the Court of the Holy See and that, in addition, he expressed the firm decision to want that under his pontificate “the truth come to light without reservations” to clarify the case. Police that has kept Italy and the entire world in suspense for four decades when the 15-year-old “Vatican citizen” disappeared without a trace after a music class.
Orlandi optimism
Pietro Orlandi, the brother of Emanuela known as “the girl from the Vatican”, spoke a few days ago with Ámbito Financiero, to whom he told that “this time I am optimistic about the determination of Francisco” who gave orders to “go in depth with this investigation whoever falls falls” making it clear that “either at the base or in the very high hierarchy of the Vatican leadership, it comes to light and the truth is clarified.”
Orlandi also said that “I found the Vatican Court very well disposed to collaborate to find out what happened to Emanuela” who said he was optimistic given the explicit determination of the Pope to open the investigation after so many years.
Investigation
The brother of the missing minor met last week for more than 8 hours with the Holy See prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, who opened the case and to whom Francisco gave “carte blanche to investigate and for the truth to come to light.” ” about what happened to the teenager who would be 55 years old today.
Also in parallel, the Italian Parliament approved the opening of a Commission of Investigation, which has not yet begun to work because it lacks the approval of the Senate. A process that is also proceeding at full speed in Italian public opinion and in the media.
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Daughter of a Vatican employee, she lived with her family 200 meters from Saint Peter’s Square, the girl, who was 15 years old at the time, did not return home on the afternoon of June 22, 1983 after a music class in a school located near Navona Square, in the center of Rome.
The case, which has been the subject of journalistic and judicial investigations from time to time in Italy and the Vatican, has once again attracted world attention after the premiere at the end of last year of the Netflix series “The Girl from the Vatican”.
In the last four decades, graves have been opened, bones have been exhumed from forgotten niches and conspiracy theories have abounded to determine what happened to the whereabouts of the young Orlandi.
It is clear that this time a new chapter will be written in the history of the Vatican on the disappearance of young Emanuela, one of the most persistent police cases that has seen three pontificates parade, so many hypotheses, controversies and dusty documents that if the decision of the Pope Francis to give carte blanche and freedom to get to the bottom of the case wherever it leads, the great mystery might finally be unraveled.
Source: Ambito
