Vatican experiences leads on lacking Italian schoolgirl

A Vatican prosecutor says he has uncovered leads “worthy of additional investigation” into the disappearance of a schoolgirl who vanished 40 years in the past.

Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, didn’t return dwelling on June 22, 1983, following a music lesson in Rome.

She was 15 on the time and lived inside Vatican Metropolis.

Her disappearance is certainly one of Italy’s most enduring mysteries.

The case drew contemporary worldwide consideration following the discharge late final yr of the Netflix collection Vatican Lady.

Vatican chief prosecutor Alessandro Diddi introduced in January he was reopening a earlier, inconclusive Vatican investigation after he inherited recordsdata from his retired predecessor.

On Thursday, he mentioned his crew had reviewed all of the obtainable proof and spoken to individuals who had labored in “sure places of work” 4 a long time in the past “confirming sure traces of inquiry worthy of additional investigation”.

He mentioned in a press release he had lately handed over his findings to Italian prosecutors so they might determine what to do.

The Vatican mentioned Diddi would proceed to pursue the case and was conscious of the household’s long-standing struggling.

Pope Francis publicly criticised Orlandi’s brother in April after he performed an audio tape on nationwide tv from an alleged gangster who mentioned women had been introduced into the Vatican to be molested and that the pope on the time, John Paul II, knew about it.

The brother, Pietro Orlandi, mentioned on Thursday he would stage a protest in St Peter’s Sq. on Sunday, when Francis offers his weekly blessing to the trustworthy.

“I advised everybody to deliver a photograph of Emanuela,” he advised RAI radio.

“I am doing it as a result of I actually hope that (the Pope) can say some phrases of hope.”

Theories about Orlandi’s disappearance have run the gamut from hypothesis it was linked to a plot to kill Pope John Paul to options she was kidnapped by the Rome underworld and accusations she was the sufferer of a priestly paedophile group.

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