The Vatican launches an investigation 40 years after the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi.

On Tuesday, the Vatican announced it had launched an investigation into the 1983 disappearance of teenager Emanuela Orlandi, who lived in the city-state, a case that has never been resolved and has been made into a documentary on Netflix.

Emanuela Orlandi15 years old, whose father worked for Vaticanwent missing after a music lesson in the center of Rome on June 22, 1983.

Since then, the case has spawned many theses, never proven, and continues to fascinate Italians amidst conspiracy theories involving the secret services, the mafia, the highest authorities of the Vatican and Freemasonry.

Who kidnapped the teenager and why? what happened with Emanuela Orlandi? what does he know Vatican this file?

Former lover of criminal Enrico de Pedis, suspected of belonging to the mafia, the P2 Masonic lodge and the sectors of finance Vaticanaccused him of kidnapping a young woman Emanuela Orlandi and plunged his body into concrete.

To test this, the Italian justice system even unearthed the grave of Enrico de Pedis, one of the leaders of the Roman crime group known as the Banda della Magliana, who was killed in 1990 in retaliation.

According to another version, the teenager was kidnapped by this criminal gang to collect a loan from the former president of the bank. Vatican (IOR), US Archbishop Paul Marcinkus.

Emanuela’s disappearance was the subject of a series last year in Netflix in which his brother Pietro claims that Pope Francis would have told him “He is in heaven”, implying, in the family’s view, that Vatican You know what happened to the girl.

The documentary, in which the testimony supports the kidnapping thesis, also gives the floor to a friend of a teenager who claims that Emanuela Orlandi She would confess to him that she had been sexually harassed by a man close to Pope John Paul II in the gardens of the Vatican a few days before he disappeared.

Partners in Crime

In 2019, at the request of family members after a cryptic message received by his lawyer, Vatican He authorized the opening of the tombs of two princesses who died in the 19th century in a Teutonic cemetery, but they contained no bones.

The experts also unsuccessfully examined the remains found in two ossuaries of the Vatican.

Family lawyer Laura Sgro wants to know about the intentions of the Vatican judiciary. “We don’t know what he will do. Vatican. In the next few hours, I will request a meeting with the defender of justice. So far, the Holy See has done nothing,” he said. AFP.

“Which documents do you want to see, those from the investigation of the Rome prosecutor’s office, or do you have any files that you want to share?” he wonders.

“For many years I have asked that certain individuals belonging to the top Vatican. Unfortunately, some of them have already passed away,” he said.

Despite the age of the corps, the family Emanuela Orlandi continues to demand justice and denounce guilty silence Vatican.

“A long investigation is not needed, because they know the truth, it is enough to reveal it,” wrote Pietro Orlandi on Facebook. He also published an illustration showing Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francisco, mentioning: “Silence made them accomplices.”

Among the many theories that characterize this case, one thesis concerns the kidnapping of a teenager in order to secure the release of Mehmet Ali Agci, a Turk who tried to assassinate John Paul II in 1981.

In an open letter published in 2010, Agça assured in 2019 that Emanuela Orlandi she is alive and that it is necessary to look for her trace in the files of the CIA. (According to information from AFP)

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