The Vatican opened for the first time an investigation on Emanuela Orlandi, the teenager disappeared in 1983

The Vatican has opened for the first time an investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared in 1983 at the request of the family.

What he confirmed to EFE the family's lawyer, Laura Sgrowho explained that asked the Vatican for information about one of the graves found in the Teutonic cemetery inside the pontifical statebut also be able to listen to some people and copy some documents.

Sgro pointed out that although the Secretary of State has authorized the opening of an investigation, she does not yet know to which of these requests the Vatican will accede.

"After 35 years, the Vatican finally opened an official investigation into the disappearance of my sister, hopefully the moment of truth and justice for Emanuela will come," said Pietro Orlandi to the Italian media, stressing that for the first time, there was a collaboration.

In March, the Orlandi family asked the Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, the opening and the information of one of the graves found in the Teutonic cemetery inside the pontifical state, after which Last summer, they received an anonymous letter with a photo of the grave with the phrase "Look for where the angel says".

The Teutonic Cemetery at the Vatican

According to Sgró, after some investigation, it was discovered that the tomb had been opened at least once and that the dating of the statue was different from that of the slab.

The grave is in the Teutonic cemetery, inside the walls of the Vatican, where it was once called Circus of nero, place of martyrdom of many early Christians, and later it belonged to a German foundation.

In this cemetery, lying on one of the walls, is a statue of an angel holding a leaf with the latin text "Requiescat in pace" (Rest in peace), while on the gravestone, a funeral inscription is dedicated to Princess Sofia and Prince Gustav von Hohenlohewho in 1857 was appointed archbishop by Pope Pius IX.

The Orlandi case, the 15 year old girl who disappeared on June 22, 1983, when he left the music school of San Apolinar, in the center of Rome, and since then, he has had no news of his fate, has always been surrounded by mystery because of the existence of several theories about the participation of men from the Vatican Curia, wing Band of the Magliana (the mafia of Rome) or the attack against John Paul II in the hands of the Turk Ali Agca.

The family has been trying for years to find clues about what happened and already in 2012, they asked for an investigation when Enrico De Pedis, head of the "Banda de la Magliana", the mafia of Rome in the 70s and 80s, found unidentified skeletal remains next to the tomb of the Basilica of San Apolinar. .

The hint that someone had ordered the group to kidnap Orlandi was one of the badumptions evaluated during the investigation.especially after De Pedis's girlfriend Sabrina Minardi confessed that the girl was kidnapped at the request of the American archbishop Paul Marcinkus, then director of the Institute of Religious Works (IOR, better known as the Vatican Bank) "give a warning to someone".

(With information from EFE)