They are investigating Vatican bones that could be from Emanuela Orlandi

The Orlandi case is the polar star of the unresolved criminal galaxy in Italy. It has everything and at the time sprinkled most of the great powers of the country.

The girl disappeared on June 22, 1983 around seven o'clock in the afternoon, when he left his flute class, in a building located next to the Basilica of San Apolinar, next to the Roman Navona Square. She was 15 years old. She was the daughter of a Vatican official who worked directly with the pope. It has always been thought that his kidnapping could have been used to pressure the Holy See in search of the secrets his father had amassed.

The police officer Now examine the age and sex of the bones. They will cross with their DNA and Mirella Gregori, another 15-year-old girl who disappeared that year without a trace. Orlandi, whose even the Turk who was attempting to assassinate John Paul II, claimed to have information – he publicly claimed that she had been kidnapped to be released as a currency – formed a a whirlwind of decay in the Italian sewers that ended up involving the Vatican hierarchy, the secret services and, of course, the mafia. Nobody has ever managed to find it nor to find a really convincing clue. But from time to time, someone is sure to know where he was.

The last time it sounded like that in the show Chi l'ha visto, a kind of Who knows where it was broadcast on the Rai:

-To learn more about Emanuela, look at De Pedis' grave and discover the favors he has given to Cardinal Poletti.

De Pedis was Renatino, the leader of the Magliana group. The closest thing Rome had to a mafia. And this gangster decided to make a small donation (450,000 euros) to be buried in the crypt of a small basilica. It was by chance the temple that bordered the music school where the little Orlandi had been lost.

The family of the disappeared, whose brother has always maintained the hope of finding her alive, has intensified her pressure and after a few years, on May 14, 2012, surrounded by a fabulous media circus, the police officer The scientist opened a marble sarcophagus in search of the girl. Renatino was there, they already knew it. He had been buried in a place reserved for the cardinals. And also hundreds of corpses of corpses dating back to an 18th century tomb and which had to be filed one by one out of 400 boxes for several days. But of girl Orlandi, as the mysterious voice that some people ran to connect with the powerful cardinal and former president of the Vatican Bank, Paul Marcinkus, had never alluded to.

The most direct charge came from Sabrina Minardi, Renatino's girlfriend. Before a judge, he claimed that the girl had been kidnapped and murdered by De Pedis on the order of Marcinkus, because his father, Ercule, an official of the prefecture of the pontifical house, had in his hands compromise for the Vatican that he had involuntarily seen. . Supposedly, Renatino had told Minardi to prepare cocaine. Shortly after, on February 2, 1990, his own gang members shot him in broad daylight on Via del Pellegrino, in the heart of Rome. Renatino carried the secrets in the tomb (that of the basilica, from elsewhere).

But that did not stop there. Just a year ago, Emiliano Fittipaldi, a journalist specializing in Vatican research and author of several books on the Holy See, published the discovery of a document obtained in a Vatican safe. Five pages dated March 1988, under the title Summary Report on the Expenditure of the State of the Vatican City for activities concerning citizen Emanuela Orlandi (Rome, January 14, 1968). That is to say, a kind of reception of the money that the Holy See would have used from its reserved funds to keep Orlandi away for ever. It would have taken 500,000 million lire to Teofilo Benotti to cover press relations following the case, the cost of gynecological visits … trips that the head of the Vatican Constables Camillo Cibin , would have done in London with the personal doctor of Pope John Paul II, Renato Buzzonetti.

A surrealist story that the Vatican, through its spokesperson, has denied and described as "ridiculous". But the Orlandi affair has it all for her. The apostolic nunciature where the bones were found is the place of work of Monsignor Vergari, the only prelate who was the subject of an investigation in this case. A priest who, by chance, capo Renatino (the alleged kidnapper of the girl) was found in prison and received a donation of 450,000 euros for accepting the interment of his body in the Basilica of San Apolinar. On Tuesday, the Holy See preferred to send a brief statement before the prosecution confirmed that it was once again investigating its relationship with the famous disappearance.