The lawyer of Pietro Orlandi, brother of the young Vatican whose disappearance at the age of 15 in 1983 is still shrouded in mystery, claimed professional secrecy when summoned by the promoter (prosecutor) of the Vatican, Alessandro Diddi, who reopened the investigation at the end of from last year.
Diddi received "the lawyer Laura Sgrò, as she had repeatedly and publicly requested, within the framework of the open file on the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi," the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, reported this Saturday.
"Also so that he could provide those elements, related to the origin of some information in his possession, expected after the statements provided by Pietro Orlandi. The lawyer Sgrò alleged professional secrecy," Bruni added concisely.
Diddi listened last Tuesday for eight hours to the testimony of Pietro Orlandi, who has always fought to know the whereabouts or fate of his little sister and who also handed over numerous documents.
The Orlandi family lawyer explained to reporters today, after her brief visit to the Vatican, that her request to meet with Diddi dated back to "January, immediately after the news of the opening of the investigation."
And "it was clearly addressed to a meeting between the Promoter and Pietro, certainly not at my disposal to testify, since I was bound by professional secrecy. I clarified the misunderstanding and recorded it," explained Sgrò, who added: "My email email is dated January 11. It has nothing to do with wanting to specify elements provided by Pietro".
After his long statement last Tuesday before Diddi, Orlandi attended a television program in which, among other things, he said that Pope John Paul II used to leave the Vatican at night with some bishops to look for young people in Rome, which was crossed out. by the official Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" of "insanity" and a "media massacre" without proof.
The controversy has to do with one of the great mysteries of Italian history: the disappearance in the center of Rome in June 1983 of Emauela Orlandi, a young Vatican citizen, since her father was an employee of the Holy See and lived inside the vatican walls
The event, which has once again attracted attention after the premiere of the Netflix documentary "Vatican Girl", was related in several journalistic investigations to the attack against John Paul II in 1981 in Saint Peter's Square at the hands of the terrorist Ali Agca.
Other theories are that he could have been the victim of a network of pedophiles or of the Banda della Magliana, the Rome mafia of the 1970s and 1980s, which would have acted on the orders of the late American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, then director of the IOR, the vatican bank
But none of the investigations yielded results and now the Holy See, which even searched the tombs of some princesses in search of their remains, has decided to reopen the investigations as requested by Pietro Orlandi.
"All my statements have been recorded. I have mentioned the names of the people who, in my opinion, should be questioned, including high prelates and other personalities. I have been asking to be heard for three years and now after my statements there must be answers," he added after spending eight hours testifying before the Vatican prosecutor.
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