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The family of a teenager missing in Italy in 1983 asked the Vatican to provide more details about the discovery of human remains in one of its properties in Rome.
Fragments of human bones have been discovered during restoration work on the neighboring property of the Holy See's diplomatic office in Rome, which could be a breakthrough for the police investigating one of the darkest mysteries in the world. Italy.
Italian media have speculated that they could shed light on the fate of one or two teenagers missing in the 1980s.
"We will ask the prosecutors of Rome and the Holy See how the bones were discovered and why their discovery was linked to the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori," the lawyer told the media. the Orlandi family, Laura Sgrò.
"The statement issued by the Holy See provides virtually no information," she said.
Citing sources close to the investigation, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Wednesday that the remains found during restoration work on the property's soil could belong to two people.
Workers reportedly found an almost complete skeleton in one area and bone fragments in another.
A police investigation was in progress to determine the age and sex of the human remains as well as the date of death. According to media reports, the remains were discovered on Monday.
"First of all, we need to establish the period [of death] before jumping to conclusions, "said Greg Burke, spokesman for the Vatican.
"The [outcome of the investigation] It's not something that will be known in a few days, it will take time. "
The detectives will look in particular if they match DNA for Orlandi or Gregori, both 15 years old when they disappeared separately in Rome in the space of 40 days in 1983.
Orlandi was the daughter of a member of the Vatican police. She was last seen on June 22, 1983, while leaving a music class.
Theories have circulated that this 15-year-old man was abducted by an organized crime gang to pressure Vatican officials to recover a loan. According to another statement, she was forced to release from prison Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turk who allegedly attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.
His brother Pietro has been campaigning for decades to find out what happened to him and accused the Vatican of silence and even complicity in this affair.
The Vatican has repeatedly stated to have cooperated with the Italian police in this case.
However, Pietro Orlandi staged a sit-in in June, accusing the Vatican of "raising the wall even higher."
"A few days after the disappearance of Emanuela, Bishop Giovanni Battista Morandini told my father that the state was concerned about the incident and that it was suggested to plug the leak before that." It is too late. I think the decision to abandon the investigation was a consequence of those remarks, "he said at the time.
Sgrò said that the Orlandi family was waiting to understand the details of the discovery and that she would make further comments after a DNA test.
"The hope of the family is that [the remains belong to Emanuela]For so long, we fought to bring her home.
Gregori disappeared exactly 40 days before Orlandi. His mother says that Gregori answered the intercom in the family apartment before telling his parents that she was a school friend and that she was going out to talk to her. She never came back. Investigators have not ruled out that cases may be related.
The property where the remains were found had been left in the Vatican in 1949 by a Jewish businessman belonging to the Nazi party before the introduction of racial laws in Italy, and then converted to Catholicism, according to Italian media reports.
