ROME — Exactly 40 years after the teenage daughter of a Vatican worker disappeared, the Vatican mentioned Thursday that new leads “worthy of further investigation” had surfaced hopes of lastly attending to the underside of one of many Holy See’s enduring mysteries.

Emanuela Orlandi vanished June 22, 1983, after leaving her household’s Vatican City condo to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay worker of the Holy See. Over the years, her disappearance has been linked to the whole lot from the plot to kill St. John Paul II, a monetary scandal involving the Vatican financial institution and Rome’s felony underworld.

The Vatican’s felony prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, mentioned Thursday he had lately forwarded to prosecutors in Rome all of the related proof he had gathered within the six months since he reopened the investigation into Orlandi’s disappearance. In a press release, he vowed to maintain pursuing the case.

Popular curiosity within the case was renewed final 12 months with the four-part Netflix documentary “Vatican Girl,” which explored the assorted eventualities suspected in her disappearance and likewise supplied new testimony from a buddy who mentioned Orlandi had instructed her every week earlier than she disappeared {that a} high-ranking Vatican cleric had made sexual advances towards her.

After the documentary aired and with the fortieth anniversary of her disappearance nearing, Orlandi’s household - backed by some lawmakers - pressed for an Italian parliamentary fee of inquiry. Separately, the Vatican and Rome prosecutor’s places of work reopened the investigation.

Rome‘s previous chief prosecutor who archived the case within the Italian legal system, Giuseppe Pignatone, is now the chief judge of the Vatican’s felony tribunal, the place Diddi is the chief prosecutor.

In the assertion, Diddi mentioned his workplace had collected “all the evidence available in the structures of the Vatican and the Holy See.”

He mentioned his workplace had additionally interrogated individuals who held Vatican positions 40 years in the past.

“It has proceeded to examine the material, confirming some investigative leads worthy of further investigation and transmitting all the relevant documentation, in recent weeks, to the Prosecutor’s Office in Rome, so that the latter may take a look at it and proceed in the direction it deems most appropriate,” the assertion mentioned.

He expressed solidarity with the Orlandi household.

Pietro Orlandi, who has fought for 40 years to search out the reality about his sister, is planning a sit-in protest Sunday close to the Vatican. He has lengthy charged that the Vatican has by no means come clear with what it is aware of in regards to the case.

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