the Vatican, the “disappeared” coffin and the text messages on the tomb –

Three leads to explore in order to get to the truth regarding Emanuela Orlandi. You indicated them to your brother Pietro, who was heard yesterday by the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori. According to the brother of the Vatican citizen, who disappeared at the age of 15 on 22 June 1983, there are “important facts that have never been explored in depth, even though he reported them to Diddi”. Pietro gave the parliamentarians of the commissions the exact copy of the documents that are already in the hands of the Vatican promoter of justice, owner of the file on Orlandi opened in January last year, and of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office. «There are recent facts which, if studied in depth, can allow us to make important steps forward – explained Orlandi – There are some clues with truly important findings».

And these clues, according to Emanuela’s brother, “deserve an in-depth study that no one has ever done”. Pietro Orlandi calls into question a series of characters who may or may not be aware of certain facts relating to Emanuela’s appearance. The first in the series is Giancarlo Capaldo, who dealt with the investigation in 2012, the year in which the magistrate had a meeting with the emissaries of the Vatican, the head of the Vatican Gendarmerie Domenico Giani and his deputy Alessandrini. On this, Orlandi explained, «there was a sort of admission by the Vatican that it was aware of some facts. So I hope that magistrate Capaldo will be one of the first to be heard together with Giani and Alessandrini who are Italian citizens.” The second lead concerns the expenses that the Vatican would have incurred for Emanuela in London, cited in a document that was perhaps too hastily branded as “false” or “apocryphal” but which might instead tell important truths.

The most fascinating, and perhaps imaginative, of the hypotheses made by Pietro Orlandi is that “of the WhatsApp messages, which I received a few years ago, between two people close to Pope Francis on confidential telephones of the Holy See”. These messages “talk regarding Emanuela’s documents, they say that they are important, that they need to be photocopied, they talk regarding ground penetrating radar, regarding how to pay grave robbers who cannot be paid cleanly.” And here Orlandi calls into question Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui and Monsignor Balda, members of Cosea, a special steering commission established in 2013 by Pope Francis with the task of investigating the state of the finances of the Holy See in order to promote the mission of transparency in the Vatican .

According to what Orlandi reported, the two characters in question exchanged a “sort of messages because they had found documents relating to Emanuela, a chest containing things belonging to Emanuela. They also told me where this chest would be located, stored in Santa Maria Maggiore. These are things I said to Diddi when I was heard last year, asking that Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, who had given me the screenshots of these messages, be heard as soon as possible. But she still hasn’t been called up for a year now”, concluded Pietro Orlandi. How much truth is there in this story? Is it possible that the files relating to the disappearance of the young Vatican citizen, whose existence many have even denied, have always been there for all to see? This will be determined by those responsible but, if there is some foundation in the three paths suggested by Pietro Orlandi, then we might be close to completing the puzzle.