'The girl from the Vatican', the disturbing story of a disappearance involving the mafia and the Holy See

"The Manuela Orlandi case is not the simple story of the disappearance of a young woman, it is much more."

Thus begins

the docuseries of four hour and a half episodes that reveals the ins and outs of one of the biggest scandals in which the Vatican has been involved:

the small state. within the city of Rome.

A case still unresolved after 40 years and that

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One afternoon in June 1983, after leaving her music class, Emanuela Orlandi disappears without a trace.

Almost four decades later, her brother Pietro de ella, who along with her three other sisters was born and raised in Vatican City, tells

the story of what happened (or believes it could have happened) in this

past).

The statements of the girl's relatives are joined by those of journalists, police officers and investigators of the time who offer the information that was handled on the case, including clues, recordings, phone calls and even the words of comfort from the then Pope. , John Paul II.

The different conspiracy theories that keep the viewer wondering what really happened are also shown, as if it were a suspense movie.

The case, as it was the daughter of a Vatican employee, an official of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, immediately had a great impact in the small state: "Living there was like living in a small town. The only difference with the rest of neighborhoods in Rome was that it was surrounded by walls and, at night, at 12, the gate was closed", says one of the Orlandi sisters.

The worldwide media repercussion was also enormous, because

such as the Turkish organization Gray Wolves

"I think the Vatican knows what happened to Emanuela. It was all a power struggle, a scandal in which the Holy See has a lot to say," according to one of the statements by a Roman investigator.

From the beginning it was assumed that the girl had been kidnapped;

why is still an unsolved mystery.

The lines of investigation were on the trail of a convent in Luxembourg, where it seemed that Emanuela had been taken, but they went nowhere.

On the other hand, some words from the then Pope, John Paul II, in a homily that implied that the girl was alive (what information did she have?) and her subsequent visit to her relatives caused suspicion, and many thought that there was a connection between kidnapping and the Holy See.

The terrorist Ali Aca and the mafia

Suspicions continued when a couple of weeks after the disappearance, an anonymous caller, who played recordings of Emanuela crying, demanded that the Pope intervene to secure

, the Turkish citizen who tried to assassinate John Paul II in 1981. in exchange for the ransom of the young woman.

Aca himself refused to exchange and did not give credibility to those calls.

From the trail of terrorism, the documentary jumps to another linked to the

and the possibility, after statements in an interview on public television by Sabrina Minardi, lover of the leader of the mafia organization Banda della Magliana Enrico de Pedis, alias Renatino, that they had kidnapped Emanuela to give the Vatican a wake-up call.

According to what is told in the series, a lot of money from the mafia ended up in the hands of the Holy See, which was then diverted for solidarity issues.

The mafia wanted billions of lire back.

In the last chapter of the series, a journalist discovers, after the

scandal , new evidence that suggests that

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The great mystery that remains unresolved in this careful production could finally be clarified, since this week, the Vatican authorities have reopened the case after several requests from Emanuela's older brother, Pietro, who has been campaigning for 40 years to resolve her disappearance.

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