• Vatican, news leak on executives suspended: hypothesis resignation leader Gendarmeria Giani

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October 14, 2019The Commander of the Gendarmerie Corps, Domenico Giani handed his mandate back to Pope Francis. This was announced by a Bulletin of the Holy See Press Office. "In accepting his resignation, the Holy Father - we read - talked for a long time with the Commander Giani and expressed his appreciation for this gesture, recognizing in it an expression of freedom and institutional sensitivity, which returns to honor of the person and of the service rendered with humility and discretion to the Petrine Ministry and to the Holy See ".

The press had begun to talk about a change of guard at the top of the Gendarmerie, after the story linked to the external dissemination of documentation for internal use relating to the new financial scandal in the Vatican.

"Pope Francis also wanted to remember his twenty years, unquestioned, loyalty and loyalty and underlined how, by interpreting his own style of testimony in every part of the world, Commander Giani was able to build and guarantee a constant climate of naturalness and security In greeting Dr. Domenico Giani, the Holy Father also thanked him for the high competence shown in the performance of the many delicate services, also in the international arena, and for the level of undisputed professionalism to which he brought the Gendarmerie Corps ".

"I live this difficult moment with the inner serenity that those who know me know that it has marked my lifestyle even in the face of painful events. I have dedicated 38 years of my life to the service of institutions, first in Italy, and then for 20 years in the Vatican, to the Roman Pontiff. In these years I have spent all my energies to ensure the service that was entrusted to me.I tried to do it with self-denial and professionalism, but feeling, as the Gospel of two Sundays ago, remembers us serenely a 'useless servant' who has done his small part to the full, "says the head of the resigned gendarmerie Domenico Giani interviewed by Alessandro Gisotti for Vatican News.

On 2 October, some media outlets published a confidential Service Provision, signed by Giani concerning the effects of some administrative limitations imposed on the staff of the Holy See.

The publication, the Holy See tells us, is "highly damaging both to the dignity of the persons involved and to the image of the Gendarmerie itself. Wanting to guarantee the rightful serenity for the continuation of the investigations coordinated by the Promoter of Justice and performed by Corps personnel, having emerged at the time the material author of the disclosure outside the service provision - reserved for members of the Gendarmerie and Pontifical Swiss Guard Corps - the Commander Giani, although he had no subjective responsibility in the matter, remitted his mandate in the hands of the Holy Father, in a spirit of love and fidelity to the Church and to the Successor of Peter ".