Orlandi, these “disturbing findings” and all of the prosecutor’s doubts within the ignored letter –

Rita Cavallaro

18 maggio 2024

A confidential letter from a Justice of the Peace, with the explanation why he wouldn’t have signed the request to dismiss Emanuela Orlandi, turns the highlight on a controversial determine, who had accused himself of getting kidnapped the Vatican metropolis, which vanished into skinny air on 22 June 1983 And he was branded a mythomaniac. The fulcrum of that communication, despatched to the then chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone by the deputy Giancarlo Capaldo, is Marco Accetti. The letter was deposited in latest days on the Rome Prosecutor’s Workplace by Accetti’s lawyer, Giancarlo Germani. As a result of that letter represents an necessary piece, in gentle of the sound evaluation, revealed by the journalist Fabrizio Peronaci within the Corriere della Sera, which demonstrates how Accetti’s voice and that of the American who telephoned the Orlandi household’s dwelling on 5 July 1983 coincide. Briefly, Accetti and the American could be the identical individual. The representations that prosecutor Capaldo made to his boss Pignatone on 17 April 2015 to justify his refusal to signal the dismissal thus tackle the contours of investigative relevance. “There isn’t any exact account of the circumstantial parts which have emerged and, above all, it’s not thought of potential to hold out additional investigations looking for the reality,” he wrote.

Retracing all of the crucial problems with the case, which has been occurring, with twists and turns and misdirections, for forty years. Since that June 22, 1983, when Emanuela left the home, with the flute, to go to music classes and he or she by no means returned. Since then, mysterious leads have been pursued: from the key companies to the Banda della Magliana, passing from the cash of the IOR to pedophilia in ecclesiastical circles. And when on March 27, 2013 the photographer Accetti, who had remained silent for thirty years, confessed to having participated within the kidnapping of the papal messenger’s daughter, his story was taken with a grain of salt. The confessed prison informed prosecutor Capaldo that he had lured Emanuela on behalf of a bunch of “shoppers”, lay and ecclesiastics, who needed to counter the anti-communist coverage of Pope Wojtyla. Shortly afterwards he was registered within the register of suspects, as a part of the investigation reopened in 2008, during which Sabrina Minardi, lover of the gang boss, Renatino De Pedis, and Don Pietro Vergari, rector of Sant’Apollinare, the basilica the place the boss had been buried, whose tomb was opened after a deep gorge revealed that Emanuela’s physique was additionally buried within the tomb. However there was nothing in that coffin and the Prosecutor’s Workplace closed the investigation, which Capaldo as a substitute directed in the direction of Accetti. The deputy argued to Pignatone that he didn’t agree with the prosecutor Simona Maisto on the truth that the photographer’s statements “represent a whimsical act”.

He underlines how Accetti was conscious of particulars unknown even to the investigators on the time, together with the truth that Emanuela “was menstruating on the time of the kidnapping”. And he specifies that the submitting doesn’t think about “disturbing proof” of Accetti’s declarations on Orlandi and on Mirella Gregori, who disappeared on 7 Could 1983. Amongst these “that Accetti accused himself of the kidnapping of the 2 women”, that lived «a couple of hundred meters away from Gregori’s bar», that «whoever telephoned the bar and described intimately the garments worn by Gregori on the time of her disappearance was concerned within the kidnapping», {that a} sound evaluation «underlines a compatibility between the voice of the phone operator and that of Accetti”, that the photographer “delivered a flute claiming to be that of Orlandi” and that the instrument was acknowledged by the household “as completely an identical to that of Emanuela”. The photographer had at dwelling even the lady’s recorder. Capaldo recalled how “some communications”, together with that of the requests to alternate Emanuela with the Pope’s attacker, Alì Agca, “come from town of Boston, within the USA, the place, at the moment, Cecconi Eleonora, Accetti’s spouse on the time, was there.” Related clues, particularly in gentle of the brand new professional report on the Americano, who had given Orlandi’s rating to the then Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli to show the veracity of the data on the kidnapping. Simply as Accetti handed over the flute to the prosecutors.