Emanuela Orlandi, his brother Pietro: “From Pope Leo XIV I expect the truth”

Pietro Orlandi’s first comment After the ascent to the papal throne of Robert Francis Prevost with the name of Leo XIV It was to be able to meet him soon. Emanuela Orlandi’s brother struggles for decades so that the truth about the case of his sister who disappeared on June 22, 1983 comes to the surface.Adnkronos Pietro said in the aftermath of the proclamation of the Holy Father: “I do not personally know this Pope”, specifying that he is aware that Prevost is “of American origin, but he lived in Rome so he must have heard the Emanuela’s story”.

He added: “In his first speech the Pope spoke of a welcoming church towards those suffering, among them we are there”, and then relaunching that “the disappearance of a girl is not only a pain that belongs to a family. If the Pope managed to solve the Emanuela affair and to impose themselves towards those who know the truth would do the good of the Church ».

Almost 42 years after the disappearance of the young woman, in still unclear circumstances (many slopes beaten over time, between terrorism, financial blackmail and pedophilia, which however have not led to any result), The brother now turns to the new pontiff. So he wishes the microphones of Fourth degree: «Four pontificates have passed, I will ask him to have more courage than who preceded him ».

Pietro Orlandi, during the transmission of Rete 4, also reminded, when in 2013 Pope Francis told her that his sister “was in heaven”: “In a delicate way he told me that Emanuela had died even if there was an open investigation and no proof. If he said that sentence, it’s because he knew something. Since that day I have often asked to meet him but there has never been a possibility ». Emanuela’s brother instead says he is confident for the future and for a meeting with the new vicar of Christ: “The new Pope begins at a time when the media attention on Emanuela is very strong since there are three open investigations”.