Emanuela Orlandi, almost 40 years after her disappearance, the Vatican reopens its investigations
You reopen the case on Emmanuel Orlandi, the girl who disappeared in Rome in 1983: it was the Vatican itself who wanted it. In June it will be 40 years since the death of Emanuela Orlandi, Vatican citizen at the time fifteen years old and that today he would have over 50, that in June 1983 after leaving the music school, in Piazza Sant’Apollinare not far from the Senate, disappeared into thin air. After a series of applications presented by Peter Orlandibrother of Emanuela who he never gave up in the search for truth, and by Laura Sgrofamily lawyer, the promoter of Vatican justice Alessandro Diddi will launch new investigations. “We have been waiting for a year to be heard”, was the first comment by the lawyer Sgrò, who at the end of 2019 had written to Pope Francis, who had suggested that they confront the promoter of justice. “We asked for it right away,” continued the lawyer, and that happened a year ago.
Now the Vatican judiciary will analyze the deeds and documents relating to the old investigations. The proceeding of the Rome prosecutor’s office in fact, on the disappearances of Orlandi but also of Mirella Gregorywhich took place a month earlier, in May ’83, he came archived in 2015 at the request of the then Chief Prosecutor Joseph Pignatonenow become president of the Vatican court. Of misdirectionsabout Emanuela’s disappearance, far too many have occurred in almost 40 years, fromkidnapping hypothesiswhich the first to raise was dad Wojtylaa few days after the disappearance, during the Angelus, in connection with the Band of Magliana, up to the many fake witnesses. An official initiative was also advanced on 20 December to set up one committee of inquiry in Parliament, which perhaps had an influence, hypothesizes the lawyer Sgrò herself. Meanwhile Saturday 14 Januaryfrom 16.30 to 18.30, in Largo Giovanni XXIII, at the beginning of via della Conciliazione in front of San Pietro, there will be a yet another sit-in to ask for the truth on the fate of Emanuela.