09/09/2018 The bones that make the Vatican tremble
07/12/2019 The enigmas surrounding the strange disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
The Vatican Promoter of Justice (prosecutor) has reopened the investigation into
the disappearance of the young Emanuela Orlandi almost 40 years ago, in 1983, one of the great mysteries of Italian history
.
The decision follows "the requests made by the family in different judicial venues," sources from the papal state told EFE.
The Orlandi family lawyer, Laura Sgrò, filed complaints in 2018 and 2019
and various instances until last year but does not know the reason that led to the reopening of the investigations and hopes to meet soon with the Vatican promoter, Alessandro Diddi.
The defender, in conversation with this agency, assured that "nobody" has notified them and that she has found out from the press.
She and she does not exclude that the new investigation occurs after collecting new evidence on the case,
recently picked up by the Netflix series
Vatican Girl
or with numerous books
.
The Vatican Prosecutor's Office closed in April 2020 the investigation into the search for possible
remains of the girl in the German cemetery in Vatican City.
Orlandi was a Vatican citizen - her father was an employee of the Holy See - who disappeared on June 22, 1983 at the age of 15 when she was returning home after her music classes in Rome
.
The event often reappears in public debate and continues to arouse enormous interest in Italy because, 40 years later, no one knows the whereabouts of the girl, while the mafia, intelligence services and even the Roman Curia are accused.
His disappearance,
in fact,
has been surrounded by numerous theories
, from the involvement of men from the Curia, to the "Magliana Gang", the Rome mafia, or even the Turkish terrorist who attacked John Paul II in 1981, Ali Agca.
"Start from the beginning"
The girl's brother,
Pietro Orlandi, expressed on RAI public television his wish that "it can start from the beginning"
with the investigations that take into account the latest evidence and indications that have emerged.
Emanuela Orlandi's family has been tirelessly searching for the girl for almost 40 years and the Vatican authorities have recently agreed to open certain spaces in search of any remains of her, although without success.
In 2012, the family called for an investigation when unidentified skeletal remains were found next to the tomb in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinaris of Enrico De Pedis, the head of the "
Magliana Gang
", Rome's mafia during the decades of 1970 and 1980.
In July 2019, the Vatican opened the tombs of two German princesses in the Vatican's Teutonic Cemetery after the family received an anonymous letter with a photo of the pantheon and the message "Look where the angel is pointing."
The graves were empty.
Months before, some bones found in the basement of the nunciature (embassy) of the Holy See in Rome were also analyzed, but it was finally determined that they were older.
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