“I am angry, furious. They have crossed the line like never before. They cannot discharge the responsibility for everything in a family,” said the young woman’s brother, Pietro Orlandi, after it became known that the Vatican propose a possible line of investigation with the focus on the young woman’s uncle.
As revealed late on Monday by channel La7, the Vatican delivered to the Italian justice a series of letters in which the hypothesis of a possible participation of the now deceased uncle of the young woman, Mario Meneguzzi, was opened, who would have been denounced for harassment by Emanuela’s sister, daughter of an employee of the Holy thirst.
According to a series of letters provided by the Vatican, the then Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli verified that Meneguzzi had harassed his niece and had forced her to keep silent by threatening to fire her from the job as a waitress in which he had taken her. .
According to the Holy See, Meneguzzi’s background is a clue to investigate whether or not he was involved in the disappearance of Emanuela.
A cause from 40 years ago, reopened this year
At the beginning of 2023, the Vatican Justice reopened the case that investigates what happened to the young woman of whom there are no more clues since on June 22, 1983 she went to a music class in the center of Rome.
The Orlandi family lawyer, Laura Sgro, rejected the new hypothesis and, in statements reproduced by the newspaper Repubblica, stated that “the Italian Judiciary had already dealt with this track in the early 1980s without reaching any results.”
“I hope these are not the only documents, which are not new, that the Vatican prosecutor has sent to the Rome prosecutor’s office,” Sgro added.
In April, the case had once again sparked controversy in Italy after Pope Francis considered the hypotheses about John Paul II’s role in the case “offensive and unfounded.”
“Certain in interpreting the feelings of the faithful around the world, I dedicate a pleasant thought to the memory of John Paul II, in these days the object of offensive and unfounded inferences,” the pontiff told the public after reciting the Regina Caeli prayer at the Vatican.
The Pope thus referred to the statements of Emanuela Orlandi’s brother, who had raised doubts about the role of the Polish pontiff in the case by assuring in television statements that Karol Wojtila “at night went out with two of his Polish monsignor friends and not with bless houses”.
In 2020, the Justice of the Holy See He had archived the investigations into the alleged burial inside the Vatican of the missing young woman, in one of the most enigmatic cases in all of Italy.
Source: Ambito
