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NETFLIX'S VATICAN GIRL: DID THE VATICAN COVER UP THE KIDNAP AND TORTURE OF
EMANUELA ORLANDI?

Netflix documentary Vatican Girl will explore the mystery of Emanuela Orlandi
whose disappearance has often been compared to the The Da Vinci Code


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 * 19:01, 12 JAN 2023
   

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Emanuela Orlandi (Image: Olycom Spa/REX/Shutterstock)


A 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983 may have had links to the Vatican
according to Netflix documentary Vatican Girl.

The real-life papal conspiracy may hold the secret to Emanuela Orlandi's fate,
according to the documentary series directed by Mark Lewis, who won an Emmy for
his previous Netflix series Don't F**k With Cats.




The show's most remarkable claim is that the Vatican had Emanuela spirited away
to London when she disappeared aged 15, where she remained alive for 14 years.

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And that when she died at the age of 29, her body was then returned to Rome,
where her family remained tormented about what had happened to her, even as they
continued to live only a few hundred yards from the men who withheld the truth.

Now, the findings of the documentary have prompted an extraordinary turnaround
by the Vatican. After decades of ignoring the repeated pleas of the family, they
have this week finally agreed to open a full inquiry into the case, promising to
'leave no stone unturned' in finding out what happened to their only citizen
considered missing.




But it remains to be seen how exhaustive and open these investigations will be,
given explosive new evidence that Emanuela was sexually abused by a senior
Vatican figure close to Pope John Paul II shortly before she vanished, according
to a report in the Daily Mail.

Emanuela's family's apartment in Vatican City — the independent papal state
covering an area of only 0.2 square miles — was a perk of her father's job as a
papal clerk, continuing a family tradition that stretched back more than 100
years and had seen the Orlandis serving under seven popes.



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The fourth of Ercole and Maria Orlandi's five children, Emanuela, enjoyed what
seemed to many to be an idyllic upbringing, in which the youngsters were given
the run of the Vatican Gardens.


Emanuela Orlandi (Image: Olycom Spa/REX/Shutterstock)

"We felt we were in the safest place in the world," said Emanuela's older
brother Pietro. But her best friend from school, talking anonymously on camera
for the first time, reveals on Vatican Girl that about a week before she
disappeared Emanuela told her that she had "a secret to confess." And that as
she walked through the Vatican Gardens, she had been "bothered" by someone very
close to the Pope.

When the anonymous woman is asked whether the harassment was sexual, the woman
replied: "Absolutely, yes. She told me, maybe to feel better, maybe thinking
that I'd free her of this thing." She continues weeping. "But I didn't do
anything."

On the day of her disappearance, Emanuela attended her music lesson as planned.
Afterwards, she was supposed to meet her younger sister, Cristina, and her
friends at a bridge about 10 minutes walk from the Vatican — but she never
turned up.

When she still hadn't returned home by midnight, Pietro and one of their cousins
decided to go searching for her.

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Talking on camera, Pietro said: "It's as if I was living a sort of nightmare.
God, what happened to Emanuela, why isn't she here?"

It seems the answer may be provided by gangster's moll Sabrina Minardi. She was
the lover of Enrico 'Renatino' De Pedis, head of the Banda della Magliana gang
and Rome's most feared crime boss until he was gunned down by rivals in 1990.

In the Netflix documentary, Minardi describes how, on the night of the
kidnapping, she and De Pedis were at a lake near Rome when his driver turned up
in a car with a young girl matching Emanuela's description in the back.


Natalina Orlandi, sister of Emanuela Orlandi (Image: Olycom
Spa/REX/Shutterstock)

According to Minardi, she was ordered to accompany the girl to Torvaianica, a
beach resort about an hour's drive from Rome. Minardi's parents had a holiday
home, then vacant, in the town. There they were met by a woman Minardi remembers
only as 'Adelaide'. She locked Emanuela in one of the bedrooms and drugged her
to keep her quiet.

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"I could hear her moaning," said Minardi. "She moaned a lot."

Minardi claims that she had no idea who the girl was, or that she had been
kidnapped, but the family were left in no doubt when, two weeks after Emanuela
had disappeared, they received a phone call from a man who played them a tape
recording of their daughter endlessly repeating the phrase: "I should be in the
third year of high school next year."

Although he refused to say who his organisation was, this was intended as proof
that they held the terrified teenager, and he issued a chilling ultimatum.
Emanuela would be killed unless the authorities released Turkish terrorist
Mehmet Ali Agca, who had shot and seriously wounded John Paul II two years
earlier.


Pietro Orlandi, brother of Emanuela. (Image: PA Images)

The documentary suggests that this was all a smokescreen designed to put the
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Meanwhile, De Pedis's organisation, the Mafia-affiliated Banda della Magliana,
secretly negotiated with the Vatican for what they really wanted. The return of
billions of pounds that the Mafia had laundered through the Vatican-sponsored
Banco Ambrosiano, one of Italy's largest private banks.

Around half a billion pounds of those illegally gotten gains had allegedly been
borrowed by the Vatican to fund Solidarity, the burgeoning anti-communist trade
union movement in John Paul II's native Poland.

And when the Banco Ambrosiano unexpectedly went bust in 1982, and the Vatican
showed no signs of repaying the Mafia's money, it was left to De Pedis's
Magliana to blackmail the Vatican by kidnapping one of their own.


(Image: Olycom Spa/REX/Shutterstock)

The series suggests that, although they could have snatched a cardinal or other
senior cleric, they may have found in Emanuela a victim who gave them even more
leverage over the Vatican because of what she could reveal about her sexual
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Emanuela's family say they knew nothing of that abuse at the time, but within
the close-knit confines of Vatican City, with its population of less than 800,
it's plausible that rumours reached the Magliana, because De Pedis had strong
connections within the senior ranks of the Vatican.

It seems Emanuela was targeted specifically. Shortly before his death in 2008, a
former Magliana gang member confessed that he had been ordered to tail her
through the streets of Rome in the period before she disappeared and that
finally, he had abducted her.

A few days after the first phone contact with her family, another member of the
gang called an Italian journalist and directed him to a rubbish bin not far from
the famous Trevi Fountain. There he found a package containing another audio
cassette, this time featuring what sounded like a terrifying recording of
Emanuela being tortured.

This may have been recorded in the basement of a large house in suburban Rome
where, according to Sabrina Minardi, Emanuela was transferred approximately ten
days after the abduction. There, as in Torvaianica, she was kept permanently
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"She was so bewildered," said Minardi. "She wasn't able to take care of herself
because they pumped her so full of drugs."

At some point in August, two months after the abduction, De Pedis told Minardi
to drive the still heavily drugged Emanuela to a Vatican-owned petrol station.
Parked there was a black Mercedes with Vatican City number plates, out of which
stepped a priest who put Emanuela into the car and drove off with her. Minardi
says that was the last she saw of the gang's captive.

Whether they had secretly brokered a deal with the Vatican is not clear, but we
do know that Emanuela never returned home to her family.

Her father, Ercole, died in 2004 without ever knowing what happened to Emanuela.
But, towards the end of his life, it seems he may have had his suspicions.


Parents of Emanuela Orlandi (Image: Olycom Spa/REX/Shutterstock)

"My father had always trusted the investigators and the Vatican to somehow help
us bring Emanuela back home," said Pietro. "But before he died he said: "I was
betrayed by those I served."

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If it's true that the Vatican had paid off the kidnappers to get Emanuela back,
they still had a problem on their hands — how to stop her talking about the
sexual abuse. And intriguing evidence that they did so by keeping her away from
Rome and her family comes from a top-secret document apparently stolen from the
Vatican by a whistleblower.

In 2015, this came into the hands of an investigative journalist Emiliano
Fittipaldi, and it includes a list of expenses to 'support the departure from
home of Emanuela Orlandi'.

Extraordinarily, these payments made between 1983 and 1997 related to the 14
years Emanuela appears to have spent in London. They included medical bills,
travel expenses and tuition fees, plus room and board at a hostel for young
Catholic women run by the Scalabrini Fathers in Clapham, and then at the
Institute of St Marcellina, a school in Hampstead run by nuns.

Fittipaldi made enquiries at both addresses but no record could be found of
Emanuela, probably, he believed, because she could have been registered under
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The same may have applied to another item listed: a visit to Professor Lesley
Regan, one of the most prominent gynaecologists in Britain. When shown a photo
of Emanuela, Regan said that she didn't recognise her but pointed out she'd had
so many patients, many of them Italian, that she couldn't possibly recall all
their faces.

Ominously, the last entry refers to 'the transfer to the Vatican City State' and
'final procedures' in 1997. Fittipaldi believes that Emanuela may have died in
London and that this could refer to the return of her body to the Vatican where
it was buried unbeknown to her family.

Since the Vatican is notoriously full of vying factions, it's possible that
these documents were forged by one interest group and deliberately released to
Fittipaldi to cause trouble. And if Emanuela really was alive until 1997, it
raises the question of why she did not attempt to escape her new life or contact
her family.


An External View of the Basilica of St Apollinaris in Rome Italy on 05 July 2010
where Lies the Grave of Enrico De Pedis Also Known As Renatino De Pedis was the
Boss of the Gang Magliana. (Image: Guido Montani/EPA/REX/Shutterstock)

"The sexual secret is absolutely the key," said the documentary's director Mark
Lewis. "If it is true, this was a secret so dark that the Vatican would have
been able to pressure her to remain silent, saying that if she returned home and
spoke out, it would not only bring down the Pope but her father would lose his
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In 2013, they attended a mass in the Vatican presided over by the newly elected
Pope Francis. They had hoped to have a conversation with the pontiff about
Emanuela afterwards, but when they presented themselves in front of him, he
uttered only four words to the family: "Emanuela is in heaven."

"It froze my blood to hear the Pope say that Emanuela was dead," Pietro said.
"As a head of state, saying in this moment that Emanuela is dead, means he knows
something we don't."

Further confirmation of this appeared to come in 2019 when an anonymous tip-off
received by the family's lawyer suggested that Emanuela was buried in a
particular crypt in one of the two cemeteries on Vatican grounds.

When the Vatican finally agreed to open it after a year of pleading by the
family, it contained neither Emanuela's coffin, nor those of the two
19th-century German princesses who were supposed to be there.

According to Pietro, it looked as though the tomb had been 'vacuumed', fuelling
suspicion that the tomb's re-opening had been authorised only once Emanuela had
been removed and buried elsewhere.


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"The only thing I'm sure of is that in the Vatican they know the truth," said
Pietro. "If Emanuela is dead, may they tell us so that my mum can at least bring
a flower to her grave."

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Nats already fed up of John Swinney as SNP morale plunges ahead of conference
John Swinney
Some politicians are already talking up the prospect of a Holyrood defeat as a
positive as the party prepares to meet in Edinburgh
Spoilsport Scottish Greens get their way in battle to stop Andy Murray tennis
centre
Scottish News
Judy Murray has been forced to shelve plans for a £20 million facility near
Dunblane that would have been a lasting legacy to the three-time Grand Slam
champ
Scottish GovernmentSNP waste of £5bn exposed in dossier as Shona Robison blames
'fundamentally damaging' UK Government for budget cutsThe Scottish Government
was quick to react negatively to Sir Keir Starmer's 'things will get worse until
they get better speech' but were told it has wasted billions of public cash
already.
The mind-blowing odds Oasis fans face in battle for tickets as experts give just
minuscule chance of success
Gigs
Noel and Liam Gallagher have buried the hatchet and millions of Brits want to be
there - but the vast majority better be prepared for disappointment
SNP accused of hiding Scotland's stark financial reality and budget cuts until
after the General Election
Scottish Government
The Scottish Government was accused of deliberately delaying key decisions and
documents to hide the full scale of Scotland's financial issues until after the
General Election.
Crime figures rise to four-year high but SNP Justice Secretary is busy with
charity walking challenge
Crime
Angela Constance is busy ensuring 'I've got my feet and my tootsies tarmac-ready
for Edinburgh' as she trains for the MoonWalk... but there's no immediate
comment on the latest alarming crime figures
Met Office declares end of UK storm season with big change coming in Scottish
weather
Met Office
There were 12 named storms during 2023/24 - a record since the system was
introduced in 2015 - with Storm Babet having the biggest impact
Top Stories
Spoilsport Scottish Greens get their way in battle to stop Andy Murray tennis
centre
Scottish News
Judy Murray has been forced to shelve plans for a £20 million facility near
Dunblane that would have been a lasting legacy to the three-time Grand Slam
champ
Glasgow looks to Edinburgh for inspiration as SNP councillors look to hammer
visitors with new tax
Glasgow
Scots wanting to visit the nation's capital now face up to an 8% charge and that
could be the same at the country's biggest city as well
SNP to spark city centre Armageddon through rail fares hike as pubs and
restaurants to cut opening hours
ScotRail
Scottish Government Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop confirmed that the popular
ScotRail peak fares pilot is ending next month despite the negative impact it
will have on the economy.
Oasis announce Edinburgh dates as Liam and Noel Gallagher reunite - full list of
dates and ticket details
Oasis
The band have confirmed they will perform two nights at Murrayfield as the
biggest British band of the 90s gets back together
I don't regret calling Nicola Sturgeon a 'liar'... we must stand up to the SNP
and that's why I'm backing Russell Findlay
Holyrood
Dumfrieshire MSP OLIVER MUNDELL – who was ejected from Holyrood after accusing
Nicola Sturgeon of 'lying' – explains why he is backing Russell Findlay in the
Scots Tory leadership race
Farewell Scexit? Failed SNP MP Tommy Sheppard admits independence referendum
won't happen this decade
Scottish independence
The former Edinburgh East MP once again hit out at the Yes Movement for failing
to ensure the SNP won the General Election as he confessed another vote to break
up the UK won't happen until the 2030s.
Teachers in Glasgow to hold strike ballot over SNP-run council's move to axe 450
classroom posts
Education
The move could lead to widespread shutdowns in city schools after the October
half-term, with teaching unions warning the job losses could 'irreparably damage
the life chances of many of the city's young people'
Wind farm giants paid £205m to switch off turbines amid year of windy and wild
weather
Wind Farms
Despite a tough financial situation, British bill payers are being forced to
hand wind farm operators in Scotland hundreds of millions to stop producing
electricity.
Meghan Markle 'thinks she's God's gift' and is the REAL obstacle to Harry and
Charles reunion
King Charles III
After a Sunday newspaper reported on the King's new attitude after receiving
'spiritual nourishment', commentator Sarah Vine says that neither father nor son
is the real problem
Prince Andrew's unusual new hobby that keeps him glued to his phone for hours
Flights
The publicity-shy prince has taken up plane spotting and even projects the
flights on his favourite tracking app on to a large screen so he can better keep
track of aircraft movements
It's official... summer 2024 HAS been wetter than average and there's still five
days to go
Weather
Official confirmation for Scotland's seriously soggy summer, as the Met Office
issues yet another yellow warning for heavy rain and the A83 Rest and Be
Thankful will be closed AGAIN
SNP branded 'embarrassing' for insisting cuts are Westminster's fault by Anas
Sarwar
Scottish Government
The Scottish Labour leader was labelled 'spineless' by Keith Brown over his
failure to stick up for Scots pensioners who will lose their Winter Heating
Payment but insisted that the blame needed to go to the Scottish Government.





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