Unshaken Faith: The Story Behind Peter’s Unwavering Conviction

“I don’t have the truth in my pocket, but I can’t help but follow all the situations and clues that emerge. I have to do it, try to understand and propose to the Commission or the Prosecutor’s Office. It’s the only thing I can do to continue to keep high attention to this matter.” Pietro Orlandi, brother of Emanuela Orlandi, during a meeting in the Protomoteca del Campidoglio room entitled “41 years without giving up” expressed confidence in the possibility of finally solving the mystery of the disappearance, or at least getting closer to the truth. “The parliamentary commission, I have always said, is necessary for everything that has happened around this affair. The misdirections, the interference also by the Italian and foreign states. We need to clarify everything”, continued Orlandi . “Not only for the family, as I have often heard, because it would have been unfair towards all the other families experiencing this situation, but for everything that surrounded this story”

On the many hypotheses made in recent decades, the English trail “is valid, there are many coincidences” even if “it doesn’t lead to understanding everything”, says Emanuela’s brother who recalled the version told by Sabrina Minardi, former lover of Enrico De Pedis, boss of the Magliana gang, and said he was convinced that his sister “was actually returned because there had been a blackmailer and, evidently, the blackmailer’s requests were satisfied”. According to Pietro, however, at that point “Emanuela was a living witness to what had happened” so “they couldn’t return her to her family” or eliminate her so “they put her in a church environment in England. I don’t know what happened next “, is Orlandi’s belief.

On the work of the Commission, Orlandi explains that “Monsignor Valentino Miserachs Grau, Emanuela’s singing teacher, said some important things last week”, “also with respect to Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui. I presume that she will have to be listened to, and will also take advantage of certainly of the pontifical secret”. Andrea De Priamo, Senator and president of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori, told reporters that Chaouqui “is on the list of people who could be audited”. There is talk of the famous chest containing alleged documents on Orlandi which would have been kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.