The Vatican opened a new investigation into the disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of one of its officials in 1983.
the case of Emanuela Orland i has come to prominence in recent months following the release of an investigative Netflix documentary titled “The Missing Vatican Girl” .
Orlandi, who was the daughter of a Vatican official and lived within the walls of the holy city, disappeared in the summer of 1983 while walking home from a music lesson in central Rome.
On Monday (9), the Vatican confirmed in a statement that Alessandro Diddi, the country’s prosecutor, will open a new investigation into the case.
The director of the Holy See’s press office, Matteo Bruni, said that the opening of the case was “also in response to several requests made by the family”.
Orlandi disappeared on June 22, 1983 after a class at a music school adjacent to the Sant’Apollinare Opus Dei Catholic Church near Piazza Navona in Rome.
His father, Ercole Orlandi, who died in 2004, worked for the Holy See’s Institute for Works of Religion.
His mother, Maria Orlandi, still lives in the family’s apartment in Vatican City. Her brother, Pietro Orlandi, spent his life trying to find out what happened to his sister and often blamed the Vatican for withholding information.
Released last year, Mark Lewis’ four-part Netflix series highlighted several of the most prominent conspiracy theories, including that his kidnapping was linked to Mehmet Ali Agca, who at the time was imprisoned for an attempted assassination of John Paul II in St. .Saint Peter’s Square in 1981.
Orlandi’s disappearance has also been linked to the Band of Magliana criminal gang, whose leader Enrico de Pedis was buried inside the Sant’Apollinare church until the Vatican exhumed his bones in 2012 at the request of the girl’s family, who thought she could be buried. with his.
Then, in 2012, the Vatican’s chief exorcist, Gabriele Amorth, claimed that Orlandi was kidnapped by Vatican police as part of a sex ring.
Human remains were found in 2018 at the Holy See’s embassy in Italy in central Rome and were unsuccessfully tested for a DNA match with the missing girl.
A year later, the Vatican agreed to exhume the tombs of two princesses believed to be buried in the cemetery of the Pontifical Teutonic College inside Vatican City.
The princess’s remains were not found in the tomb, nor were Orlandi’s, but two ossuaries were found under a secret door in the cemetery.
Lewis interviewed Orlandi’s mother and sisters, who had never been interviewed before, as well as the chief investigator for the Italian police at the time.
It used the old missing persons poster design with Orlandi’s picture as the main advertisement for the series, which brought new attention to the case.
Orlandi’s brother, Pietro, confirmed to CNN who organized a demonstration in St. Peter’s Square to mark her birthday on January 14th.
Lewis confirmed to CNN which many fans of the Netflix series are bound to attend.
Watch the trailer for The Missing Vatican Girl
Source: CNN Brasil
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