Vatican reopens the case of Emanuela Orlandi, the teenager who has disappeared since 1983

The Vatican said on Monday that it has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and weeks after her family petitioned Parliament Italian to support the cause.

The Vatican prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, opened a file for the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandibased in part “in the requests made by the family in various places”said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni.

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Laura Sgro, a family lawyer OrlandiHe said he did not have independent confirmation of the investigation, which was first reported by the Italian news agencies Adnkronos, LaPresse and ANSA. He noted that the last time he brought the case to the Vatican was in 2019.

Orlandi He disappeared on June 22, 1983 after leaving his family’s apartment in Vatican City to attend a music class in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See.

His disappearance has been one of the enduring mysteries of the Vatican and, over the years, has been linked to various events, including the plot to assassinate Saint John Paul II and a financial scandal involving the Vatican bank until the underworld of Rome’s underworld.

The recent four-episode Netflix documentary “Vatican Girl” explores such scenarios and also provides new testimony from a friend who claims that Emanuela had told her a week before she disappeared that a high-ranking Vatican cleric had made sexual advances on her.

Pietro Orlandi, brother of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenager who disappeared in 1983 in one of Italy’s darkest mysteries, stands with supporters, family and friends during a sit-in behind St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome on March 18. January 2020. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP /)

For their part, Sgro and the brother of OrlandiPietro, announced last month a new initiative to create a parliamentary commission to investigate the case.

Three initiatives previously presented to the Italian parliament failed to get off the ground, but lawyer Sgro and opposition lawmaker Carlo Calenda argued that the Vatican could not close the case with so many unanswered questions.

Speaking to RaiNews24 on Monday, Pietro Orlandi He called Diddi’s decision a “positive step” that the Vatican has apparently changed its mind, put its opposition behind it and will now review the case from the beginning.

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