Emanuela Orlandi

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Emanuela Orlandi (born January 14, 1968 in Rome ) is the daughter of a court servant of Pope John Paul II and a Vatican citizen . She became known for her mysterious disappearance in Rome on June 22, 1983. After initial investigations were unsuccessful, they were resumed in May 2012, but were again unsuccessful. In October 2015, the Italian judiciary closed the investigation again, but resumed it in July 2019.

kidnapping

Emanuela regularly took the bus to a music school. She showed up late for class on June 22, 1983. In a phone call with her sister, she said she had received a job offer from a representative at Avon Cosmetics. After class, Emanuela talked to a friend about the job offer. She did not return home that evening. Emanuela was reportedly last seen in a big, dark BMW. At 3:00 pm the following day, her parents called the director of the music school to ask about their daughter's whereabouts. The police had suggested investigating whether the girl might have stayed with friends before filing a missing person report. After all inquiries were unsuccessful, Emanuela was reported missing that same day. Search reports with the parents' telephone number appeared in the newspapers Il Tempo , Paese della Sera and Il Messaggero over the next two days .

On Saturday evening, June 25th, a 16-year-old boy named “Pierluigi” called the phone and claimed to have met the missing girl in Piazza Navona that afternoon. The teen mentioned Emanuela's flute, her hair, and the glasses she doesn't like to wear, along with other details that made his statement seem believable. According to him, Emanuela had her hair cut and called herself "Barbarella". She said she had just run away from home and wanted to sell Avon products.

Three days later, on June 28th, a man named “Mario” called the Orlandi family claiming they owned a bar near Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II , between the Vatican and the music school. The man said that a girl named "Barbara" was a new customer and had confided in him. She wants to return home for her sister's wedding.

On June 30th, 3,000 posters with Emanuela Orlandi's photography were distributed in Rome to appeal to the population to help them find the girl.

Pope John Paul II made an appeal on Sunday July 3rd to those responsible for Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance. In doing so, he indirectly indicated that, in his opinion, it must be a kidnapping. Two days later, the Orlandi family received the first of a series of anonymous calls. Emanuela was allegedly a prisoner of a terrorist group demanding the release of Mehmet Ali Ağca , who on May 13, 1981, assassinated the Pope. More calls came in the following days, including one where a recording of Emanuela's voice was played over the phone. A few hours later, the Vatican was proposed to exchange Ali Ağca for Orlandi. An anonymous interlocutor mentioned the previous callers "Mario" and "Pierluigi" and referred to them as members of the organization.

Attempts to explain

Initially, it was believed that a group of criminals had kidnapped Orlandi to reclaim money that the group allegedly loaned the Holy See . Another theory suggested that the kidnappers wanted to release Mehmet Ali Ağca. In the meantime, Orlandi has been suspected to be in Paris , Hungary , Iraq , another country in the Middle East, or Turkey . Neither the assumptions nor the assumptions that she was being forcibly detained in a monastery in Peppange in Luxembourg or in the Säben monastery in South Tyrol could not be confirmed .

In May 2012, Gabriele Amorth , a Roman Catholic priest and exorcist , introduced a new possibility. He accused a group, which included Vatican State Police officers and foreign diplomats, of kidnapping the girl and sexually exploiting her for parties . Later, Amorth said, she was murdered and her body disposed of.

Also in May 2012, the grave of the Mafia boss Enrico De Pedis was opened in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Rome , where the girl's body was supposed to be located. In fact, bones were found that could not be assigned to the Mafioso. However, it is assumed that these are the bones of those buried earlier in the crypt. A DNA test should help clarify this. Investigations were started against the priest Pietro Vergari, who was then responsible in the basilica. Other rapporteurs, however, dispute such links. The DNA tests showed that the bones could not be assigned to the missing girl.

In June 2012, Ağca claimed that Emanuela Orlandi was alive and in Turkey . She was abducted in order to obtain his release. In contrast , Pope Francis told Orlandi's brother Pietro on March 17, 2013 that Emanuela was in heaven. Pietro Orlandi complained of having been lied to by Pope John Paul II ; his successor Benedict XVI. I carried the lie through silence. In August 2019, Ağca reiterated his claims in a letter to Pope Francis; Orlandi lives in a strictly locked monastery and the Vatican is obliged to bring her back to her family.

In 2017, the journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi wrote that he had a Vatican statement of costs, according to which Orlandi lived in an English boarding school until 1997. The final entry, Transfer to the Vatican for the completion of final procedures, reads as if Orlandi had been brought back to Rome that year and killed. Fittipaldi admitted doubts about the authenticity of the document; be it a forgery, it indicates conflicts within the Roman Curia . The Holy See stated that the document was bogus.

A bone find in the Apostolic Nunciature in Rome in October 2018 could not be linked to the Orlandi case, despite initial suspicions; the skeleton discovered came from a man who died before 1964.

In March 2019, after an anonymous tip, Orlandi's relatives, above all her brother Pietro Orlandi, requested the graves of Curia Cardinal Gustav Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst († 1896), Sophie zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein († 1836) and Charlotte Friederike zu Mecklenburg (†) 1840) on the Campo Santo Teutonico bordering the Vatican , a cemetery of the German priestly college next to St. Peter's Basilica, to check whether Emanuela Orlandi's bones were there. In July 2019, the request for a search of the grave on an extraterritorial property of the Holy See was granted. The graves were last opened by stonemasons during a renovation in 2010.

The graves were opened on July 11, 2019, but no remains were found, not even of the two women allegedly buried there. After the unsuccessful search, Pietro Orlandi requested, in several interviews, the hearing of Francesca Chaouqui , who called him days before these graves were opened and stated that two completely empty graves would be found. Chaouqui was a member of the auditing commission COSEA , set up by Pope Francis , which was supposed to examine the economic operations and finances of the Vatican State - the body was also responsible for the Vatican Bank IOR and the only female protagonist of the Vatileaks 2.0 affair.

Only two days later, the Vatican reported a find: While looking for a place where the human remains could have been brought from the empty graves, the investigators came across two secret ossuaries under the floor of the German priestly college. The Vatican announced that the rooms under a trap door were sealed immediately after they were discovered. An investigation date was set on July 20. The investigation was reopened after thousands of bones were found there. The genetic examination of the bones was initiated. A week later, according to the Vatican, it turned out that none of the bones were from the 20th century. An expert appointed by Orlandi's family questioned the Vatican information and asked for further examinations on about 70 bones. This was rejected; according to the Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, these bones also showed "signs of very ancient dating".

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ 15-year-old is said to have been killed after sex parties in the Vatican. In: Spiegel online. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .
  3. ↑ The Orlandi case unresolved to this day. In: Deutschlandfunk. June 21, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Rome discontinues investigations into kidnapped Vatican citizen , on orf.at, October 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Burkhard Juergens: Angels and demons in the Vatican. Domradio from June 8, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Caso Orlandi, un triplo inganno contro la verità. L'Espresso from September 15, 2014
  7. ↑ Nick Squires: Emanuela Orlandi 'was kidnapped for sex parties for Vatican police'. In: The Telegraph. May 22, 2012, accessed May 25, 2012 .
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  11. ↑ Fabrizio Peronaci: Alì Agca: "Emanuela è viva, sta bene è stata rapita per farmi liberare". In: Corriere della Sera . June 21, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2012 .
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  13. ↑ “The family suffers.” Domradio from November 8, 2018
  14. ↑ Nicolas Büchse: Abduction in the Vatican: Where is Emanuela Orlandi? star of August 20, 2017
  15. ↑ Post by Ali Agca. Domradio from 4th August 2019
  16. ↑ Oliver Meiler: What role did the Vatican play in the disappearance of this girl? Süddeutsche Zeitung from September 19, 2017
  17. ↑ Julius Müller-Meiningen: Did the Vatican make Emanuela Orlandi disappear 34 years ago? Augsburger Allgemeine from September 20, 2017
  18. ↑ Dietmar Seher: When Emanuela and Mirella disappeared forever. T-online.de from November 28, 2018, accessed on November 29, 2018
  19. ^ Fulvio Fiano: Emanuela Orlandi e Vaticano, le ossa della Nunziatura sono di un uomo. Corriere della Sera from November 24, 2018, accessed November 25, 2018
  20. ^ Hohenlohe - Section 3: Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and Hohenlohe-Jagstberg. In: Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site, undated, accessed on July 12, 2019. Here: “1a) Sophie (Schillingsfürst 13 Dec 1758 – Rome 20 Jan 1836; bur Campo Santo Teutenico)”; Daughter of: “ Ludwig Leopold Fst zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein 1 Mar 1763 (Siegen 15 Nov 1731-Heubach 14 Jun 1799; bur Kl ENgelberg); m.Schillingsfürst 6 May 1757 Polyxena Gfn von Limburg-Stirum (28 Oct 1738-26 Feb 1798; bur Bartenstein) ”.
  21. ↑ The Prinzessinnenpalais ("Prinzessinnenhaus") in Niederstetten. Princess Sophie zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (1758–1836) on the Princesses House, which belongs to Holdbergstetten Castle . In: Günther Emig's literature company. Günther Emig (Ed.), Holdbergstetten Castle, Niederstetten . Here in particular: “… during which I spent happy days until November 1819 when I left to go to Rome. ... "
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  23. ↑ Julius Müller-Meiningen: Missing case in the Vatican: family requests opening of the grave. Augsburger Allgemeine from March 4, 2019
  24. ↑ The Orlandi case: family asks Vatican for new investigations. Vatican News of March 4, 2019
  25. ↑ a b “The graves are empty. We are all surprised ”. In: welt.de. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Brother receives a mysterious call in front of the grave opening
  27. ↑ The Orlandi case: New track leads to German priestly college , kathisch.de, July 13, 2019
  28. ↑ Human bones discovered in a secret chamber in the Vatican , t-online.de, July 13, 2019
  29. ↑ Surprising bone find in the Vatican , July 13, 2019
  30. ↑ Stefano Vladovich: Il caso Orlandi si riapre. Trovate migliaia di ossa. il Giornale of July 21, 2019
  31. ↑ Sonja Gurris: Bone analysis could solve the Orlandi case. n-tv , July 27, 2019
  32. ↑ Emanuela Orlandi remains missing - Vatican: Bone find does not solve a criminal case . In: zdf.de , July 28, 2019, accessed on July 28, 2019.
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  34. ^ Bone examination in the Vatican ends without a trace from Orlandi kath.net from July 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Orlandi, Emanuela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian daughter of a court servant of Pope John Paul II
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy