VATICAN CITY, Holy See — The Vatican introduced on Tuesday it was opening an inquiry into the disappearance of a young person 40 years in the past, a case which has sparked numerous theories and successful Netflix sequence.
Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican worker, was final seen leaving a music class in Rome on June 22, 1983.
Decades of hypothesis adopted over what occurred to her, starting from mobsters to a Vatican conspiracy, and the case was the topic of hit Netflix sequence “Vatican Girl” in 2022.
The Vatican’s chief prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, “has opened a file, based in part on the basis of requests made by the family,” a spokesman mentioned.
However, it was not precisely clear what particularly had triggered the inquiry, with the Orlandi household saying they have been nonetheless ready for particulars.
“We don’t know what the Vatican will do… which papers they want to review, the papers of the investigation by the Rome prosecutors or if they have a file to share,” household lawyer Laura Sgro advised AFP.
“The Vatican has never done anything up until now,” she mentioned, including: “I have been asking to be heard by top figures in the Vatican for years… but unfortunately some people are already dead.”
Orlandi’s household has fought tirelessly to search out out what occurred to {the teenager}.
According to 1 idea broadly circulated in Italian media, she was snatched by mobsters to place strain on the Vatican to recuperate a mortgage.
Enrico De Pedis, head of the Magliana gang, was suspected of involvement in her kidnapping and a few speculated the teen is perhaps buried alongside him below a church—however DNA exams on bins of bones in his tomb did not discover a match.
Another declare usually repeated within the press was that she was taken to drive the discharge from jail of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.
In 2017, conspiracy specialists have been pushed right into a frenzy by a leaked—however apparently falsified—doc, purportedly written by a cardinal and pointing to a Vatican cover-up.
In 2019, the Vatican dug up two burial chambers within the seek for Orlandi however mentioned no current bones have been discovered. — Agence France-Presse
