The Mystery of Emanuela Orlandi’s Disappearance is Solved

A file that could reveal the mystery of Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance. “It exists, we found it, this is what Pietro Orlandi implied, this is what Paolo Gabriele talked about,” said Vatican justice advocate Alessandro Diddi. Throne and Altar. ‘War in the Vatican’. However, Diddi announced that ‘the content is confidential’. ‘Hopefully the day will come soon when we can present our research activity and everyone can offer their own interpretation, but the time for that has not yet come.’ The Promoter of Justice recalled that five clues have emerged in the Orlandi case over the years: from white slavery to clues about family matters. Here are five clues that clearly can’t all be true. These are mutually exclusive. We are trying to eliminate those that are not credible. Diddi reminded that they are in full cooperation with Italy regarding ‘respecting the borders’: Italy is conducting an investigation, we are not competing. ‘We are cooperating.’ Judge Ilario Martella, who always supported the international leadership associated with the Stasi in the Orlandi case, was also present at the book presentation. ‘I – Diddi said again – would like to work without a personal opinion because my personal opinions deviate from the facts. Each of the remakes has its own credibility. I don’t want to be convinced of any of them for now. ‘We are talking about a terrible event that many people have speculated about.’ ‘If he said so, okay, there are rules to be followed, there is sovereignty to be respected, there are rogatory rules, if the Commission deems it necessary to obtain documents from our file, it should take action. In response to a question about the last session of the bicameral commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, where former Gendarmerie Commander Domenico Giani was heard last Thursday, Diddi said: In recent years, while commanding the Vatican police, he had carried out ‘information activities’ and later carried them out to the Vatican. He transferred it to his supporter’s office. Emanuela Orlandi, Vatican file case: latest post-trial news. Family’s lawyer: ‘We have been looking for it since 2017’ Giani’s trial in the Vatican Former Vatican Gendarmerie Commander Domenico Giani was heard in the parliamentary investigation commission chaired by Senator Andrea De Priamo (FdI) regarding the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori . Regarding the discovery of the tomb of Enrico De Pedis in Sant’Apollinare, he replied: ‘I don’t know why it is there, I was never interested in it, it was not part of my duties. “If it hadn’t appeared in the newspapers, this grave would probably still be there,” he stressed. “I also see it as a serious matter, but having said that, I don’t know why it’s there, I wasn’t interested.” with him. When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs superiors noticed this, they said ‘this grave has no right to be here’ and it was removed.’ The funeral of Renatino De Pedis When the issue of exhuming the tomb of ‘Renatino’ De Pedis from the basilica of Sant’Apollinare arose, ‘Dr. I was asked to contact Capaldo, obviously this request came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mons. . Georg Gaenswein and so Dr. I was very surprised when Capaldo used the name ambassador because I am not an ambassador, although it is not an offensive word in itself, I was a police chief, a servant of the State, I did not find it pleasant, it made me uncomfortable, the rest is understandable.’ Giani was asked about the alleged ‘negotiation’ with the Rome prosecutor’s office in 2012, when Giancarlo Capaldo was in charge of the file on the disappearance of the Vatican girl. Giani explained that the talks with Capaldo were about vague issues of extraterritoriality, but that the Vatican was “extremely willing to cooperate” to ensure the exhumation of the Roman criminal’s tomb. Giani also said that he was “humanly disappointed” by the prosecutor’s behavior at the time because he had offered “loyal” cooperation: He learned that the grave had been dug from Father Federico Lombardi, who in turn “learned about it from the agencies.” He was busy ensuring security for Pope Benedict’s visit to Arezzo. “We couldn’t offer Capaldo anything we didn’t have,” Giani explained before the parliamentary commission of inquiry, chaired by Senator Andrea De Priamo, regarding what the Commission always called Capaldo’s offer of cooperation in a hearing. However, there is no negotiation between the Rome prosecutor’s office and the Vatican police department. ‘We had nothing, I am not a salesman, I do not sell cigarettes but I sell services to individuals and institutions, if I can speak it is because I am sure of what I say, Capaldo can say what he wants but I did it. ‘I’m not going to tell Capaldo things I don’t own.’ “I went to tell him,” said the former head of the Vatican Gendarmerie, with extreme synthesis, we want to remove the tomb, you can do it without us, but we guarantee maximum cooperation, then I can also ask myself why that tomb is there. Why, I’m surprised at this, it shouldn’t have been put there, it’s a scandalous thing, but the task I was given was to deal with the offer of cooperation in opening the tomb.’ Giani reported that he had two meetings with Capaldo, the first at the prosecutor’s office and the second at the Vatican: ‘He came for the second time, so if we want to say it all, maybe he thought he would get a result, but what was the result? What if we had nothing?’ Giani has actually said several times that the Vatican does not have elements useful for investigations. ‘Ask the Vatican for the file’ ‘I confirm what was said, through me as the Gendarmerie Commander, the Vatican requested a meeting with Prosecutor Capaldo to privately discuss the issue of opening De Pedis’ tomb from the Basilica. These cordial relations with the prosecutor’s office of Sant’Apollinare, Rome, were interrupted at a certain point, Giani said, and since then Dr. “I confirm that I did not see Capaldo,” he said. To the questions of the head of the commission, Senator Andrea De Priamo, whether the meetings with Capaldo only mentioned the exhumation of Emanuela Orlandi, and not support for finding her body or information about the case, Giani repeated: ‘The first meeting is at the Prosecutor’s Office, the second at the Vatican. The second time, at the Vatican, Capaldo asked me if I had any news, what I knew. I said that the Vatican did not carry out any investigative activities and that ‘this was handed over to Italy’ at the time of his disappearance on June 22, 1983. He stated that the two meetings were held on January 25, 2012, and the second one was on February 1, 2012. Giani then spoke of an ‘information activity’ carried out at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mons. Georg Gaenswein stated that this was ‘a dossier compiled by me in Mons’. According to Georg’s request for a historical reconstruction of the facts, the file is in the office of the Promoter of Justice, where the Commission can apply to request laws.’ Faced with many insistences from the Commission regarding the embarrassment of a funeral similar to that of Renatino De Pedis in the basilica, Giani replied: ‘I too was stunned, but these were events that took place many years before my arrival, we had no authority. ‘It was just a matter of removing the remains as quickly as possible, and that’s what we did.’ ‘I am not a witness to anything,’ he added – I repeat, I believe that I acted with utmost integrity and respect in the context of the activity I carried out and at the same time I acted with a desire for cooperation, it was important to remove that grave, it could have come from a holy place, it could have been somewhere else, but with the Italian judge ( Capaldo, ed.) I didn’t go there to report favorable conditions for an investigation, I went there to say there were no problems on the part of the Vatican. so I don’t see what they have to have probably verbalised.’ When asked if he knew Giovanni Egidio, the lawyer of the Orlandi family, Gianni Cuperlo answered: ‘I have never met him, I only read about him.’ Former 007 Giulio Gangi, who was found dead in his home in 2022, added: ‘I don’t know who he is because I read about him too.’ Giani: I have no answer about Emanuela Orlandi ‘I lived in the Vatican from 1999 to 2020, for a certain period of time I had the opportunity to meet Ms. Maria Orlandi in a building near Sant’Anna, adjacent to the building where Ms. Maria Orlandi lived. When Ercole Orlandi arrived at the Vatican and learned that I was first in the Guardia di Finanza and that I also came from the Services, he asked me if I knew. According to Giani, I entered the Guardia di Finanza in 1991, but I knew nothing about this incident. There was great love even between our families, Emanuela’s mother, Mrs. Maria, always had great love for my daughter, that care was always there.’ But regarding Emanuela’s fate, Giani has repeatedly said, “I don’t know anything,” in response to many questions about his understanding of the relationship, even on a personal level. ‘At that moment, international terrorism was discussed with Ağca, then the allegation of organized crime emerged, then I heard another clue, but I can’t answer, as a police officer, I can’t have an idea if I have no idea.'” “When I arrived,” he added at the time. Many people who were there were no longer there, what I read was for anyone to read, if you ask me a more general question I cannot in good conscience give an answer, I was in the Guardia di Finanza, we were taught never to follow a single lead, but at that moment there I was not, the investigations were carried out by Italy and I believe in good faith.’ Giani later reported that Emanuela was being heard by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office, where one of the three investigations into her case is currently open.