40 years after her disappearance, the Vatican listened to Brother Emanuela Orlandi for eight hours.

Pietro OrlandiBrother Emanuela, a young Vatican whose disappearance at the age of 15 in 1983 is still shrouded in mystery, was listened to for eight hours on Tuesday Attorney of the VaticanAlessandro Diddi, according to local media.

First time brother Emanuela Orlandi and the family lawyer, Laura Sgro, could be heard by a Vatican court after Diddy, a promoter (prosecutor) in Vaticanreopened late last year the investigation into the disappearance of a teenager.

Brother Emanuela Orlandi he gave the prosecutor all the information he had and asked him to interrogate all the cardinals and members of the curia who might know about what had happened.

“We talked about many things, about the famous negotiations of (Judge Giancarlo) Capaldo, about the transfer emanuela to London, about pedophilia, judging by the screenshots of the messages that we received,” Orlandi said, assuring that he “noted a desire to clarify the situation.”

“All my statements are recorded. I gave the names of the people I thought should be interrogated, including high prelates and other personalities. I asked to be heard for three years, and now after my statements there will be answers, ”he added after an eight-hour speech by the prosecutor, which ended around midnight.

Pietro Orlandi emphasized that the promoter received from Pope Francis and the secretary vatican statePietro Parolin, “the task is to clarify the situation and not to make exceptions for anyone.”

The judge assured him “that the investigative actions will definitely continue to the end and that they have already listened to other people,” he explained.

Among the new documents he provided to the investigation is evidence that could suggest that after his disappearance, his sister was taken to the island of Sardinia and then to England.

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Orlandi was a citizen of the Vatican (her father was an employee of the Holy See and lived within the walls of the Vatican) who disappeared on June 22, 1983 at the age of 15, when she left home to attend music classes in Rome, and became one of the great mysteries of Italian history.

disappearance Orlandiwho returned to the news after the premiere of a new documentary Vatican girl (girl from Vatican) on the platform Netflixwas linked in various investigative journalism to the 1981 attack on John Paul II in San Pedro del Plaza. Vatican at the hands of the Turkish terrorist Ali Agca.

There was also talk of a pedophile ring, and the Banda della Magliana, the Roman mafia of the 1970s and 1980s, reportedly operated on the orders of the late U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, then director of IOR, the Vatican Bank. But none of the investigations yielded any results. (EFE)