The Vatican prosecutor investigating the disappearance of the 15-year-old girl Emanuela Orlandi in 1983, meets this Tuesday with the family 40 years after she did not appear when she went to music classes.

“The Office of the Promoter (fiscal) confirms the will of the Holy See to clarify the matter, also in light of the recent statements of Pietro Orlandiundertaking all actions to arrive at a faithful reconstruction of the facts, to the extent possible,” the Holy See said in a statement last Friday.

In the same note, the Prosecutor’s Office assured that they will listen to Orlandi “after the meeting was requested by the latterwho will be accompanied by his lawyer, in order to make his own statements and offer any information in his possession within the framework of the file opened by the Vatican’s promoter of Justice in January this year, following recent statements on the disappearance of his sister.

The Orlandi family lawyer, Laura Sgro, explained to EFE that they will take the prosecutor “the evidence” they have collected in recent years “to contextualize it.” Among the new documents that will be deposited for the investigation, Pietro Orlandi will bring some that could show that, after his disappearance, his sister was taken to the island of Sardinia and later to England.

Likewise, Pietro Orlandi and his lawyer they will again request the appearance of some witnesses of the time, among them Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was secretary of John Paul II, as well as Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, secretary of Benedict XVI, and the former commander of the Domenico Giani Gendarmerie.

Who was Emmanuela?

Orlandi was a Vatican citizen (her father was an employee of the Holy See and lived within the Vatican walls), who disappeared on June 22, 1983 at the age of 15 when she left home to attend her music classes in Rome and has become one of the great mysteries of Italian history.

The Orlandi family lawyer had presented complaints to the Vatican in 2018 and 2019 and various instances until the Vatican finally decided in January to reopen the investigation. The Vatican Prosecutor’s Office had already opened in April 2020 the investigation into the search for possible remains of the young woman in the German cemetery in Vatican City but, finding nothing, the case was filed again.

The disappearance of Orlandi, which has returned to the news after the premiere of the new documentary ‘Vatican Girl‘(‘The girl from the Vatican’) on the Netflix platform, was linked in various journalistic investigations to the attack against John Paul II in 1981 in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican at the hands of the Turkish terrorist Ali Agca.

It was also accused magliana bandthe Rome mafia of the 1970s and 1980s, which would have acted on the orders of the late American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, then director of the IOR, the Vatican bank.

In the last period, two unpublished audios were published on relations with the Banda dell Magliana and the Vatican; and Ali Agca sent a letter to Emanuela’s brother, Pietro, in which he again blamed the Vatican. Italy will shortly approve the creation of a parliamentary commission that tries to clarify the unsolved disappearances of two girls, one of them Emanuela Orlandi.