The Vatican has launched an investigation into the disappearance of a teenager who lived in the Vatican four decades ago in what has been described as one of the most mysterious cases in the history of the Holy See, which was made into a Netflix documentary. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a man who worked in the Vatican, disappeared at the age of fifteen after a music lesson in downtown Rome on June 22, 1983. they are proven.
The case generated a lot of interest among Italians, with conspiracy theories that suggested the involvement of many parties, including the secret services, the mafia, the Vatican’s supreme power and freemasonry.
But many questions remain unanswered: who kidnapped the girl? And why? What is her fate? What does the Vatican know about this hot file?
The former lover of Enrico de Pedis, a mafia “leader” suspected of belonging to the Masonic lodge and structures associated with the financing of the Vatican, confirmed that he kidnapped the girl and filled her body with concrete.
In 2012, the Italian judiciary went so far as to open the grave of De Pedis, one of the leaders of a criminal group in Rome called Banda della Maliana, but DNA analysis showed nothing.
According to some assumptions, this criminal group kidnapped the girl in order to obtain a loan from the former head of the Vatican Bank, American Bishop Paul Marcinkus.
This case, which has had many twists and turns, was the subject of a documentary series presented by Netflix in late 2022 called The Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, in which Emanuela’s brother, Pietro, claims that Pope Francis told him that ” she is in heaven,” which means, according to the family, the Vatican knows what happened to the girl.
The documentary, in which witness testimony supports the kidnapping hypothesis, also shows the testimony of the teen’s girlfriend confirming that Emanuela confessed to her that she was “disturbed” by the sexual harassment she was subjected to by a close associate of the Pope. John Paul II in the gardens of the Vatican a few days before her disappearance.
Vatican “collusion”?
In 2019, at the request of the girl’s family after a mysterious letter received by their lawyer, the Vatican authorized the discovery of two burials of two princesses who died in the nineteenth century at a site known as the Teutonic Cemetery in Rome, but they did not. do not contain bones. Experts also examined the remains found in two bone burials in the Vatican to no avail.
The family’s lawyer, Laura Sgro, currently wants to know the intentions of the Vatican judiciary.
“We do not know what the Vatican will do. In the next few hours, I will request a meeting with the Vatican’s prosecutor to sort this matter out. So far, the Vatican has done nothing,” she told AFP.
Despite the fact that four decades have passed since the case was heard, Emanuela’s family still demands justice and condemns the silence of the Vatican.
Her brother Pietro Orlandi wrote on Facebook: “There is no need for a lengthy investigation because they know the truth, so all it takes is to reveal it.”
He also posted a photo of the meeting of Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis with the words “silence made them accomplices.”
One of the many hypotheses in this case indicates that the girl was kidnapped to secure the release of Mehmet Ali Akçi, a Turk who tried to assassinate John Paul II in 1981.
In a 2019 open letter, Ali Akça, released in 2010, confirmed that Emanuela Orlandi was alive and that a trace of her in the CIA archives should be searched.
