Palace of London, the lawyers of the Sloane Avenue affair plan a class action –

Filippo Caleri

March 27, 2024

There is a time for everything, says Ecclesiastes. A time to suffer and a time to counterattack. And it is probably on the basis of this biblical verse that the lawyers of the people involved in the scandal surrounding the sale of the Sloane Avenue building in London are regarding to take action. Among these, but not only, the financier Raffaele Mincione, but also broker Gianluigi Torzi, and apparently also the architect Luciano Capaldo, consultant to the secretariat of the Holy See, together with Fabrizio Tirabassi. Names entered into the canvas of the great trial that began across the Tiber on the financial investments of the Cupolone. All, say the reports, caught in Striano’s net and who, by a singular coincidence, from being perfect strangers, a few days following the reporting of the suspicious transactions began, became important figures in the judicial cauldron of the scandal: brought into play, placed in the dock, exposed to media attacks and condemned in various ways. Now, however, following the time of the pillory, the time of the request for the truth would come.

From what transpires from the corridors of the courtrooms, from the contacts and conversations heard by , the lawyers are consulting together on what to do. And a common defensive line would have already been drawn. A sort of overall class action, however made up of individual documents and complaints, along the lines of what had already been started by Cecilia Marogna, the so-called “Lady Vatican”. Everyone is ready to ask the investigative bodies for the same explanations. The court of Perugia first and foremost but also that of Rome if the lawyers found legal pretexts. The request is to ascertain whether the singular temporal coincidences between the SOS and the start of the investigations once morest them are founded.

It is not even excluded, indeed highly probable, that if a connection were identified by the magistrates, the same parties would be ready to appear in court as the offended party. A request that also brings with it a clarification on a controversial point of the Vatican investigation. Those 120 messages exchanged between the Attorney General of the Holy See, Diddi, with other people involved in the affair of the London palace. Text messages and chats classified by the magistrate himself. And for the hours in which maximum transparency is requested.