Orlandi case: proceedings
regarding bones in the Teutonic cemetery is closed
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| Teutonic cemetary (Vatican Media) |
A Single Judge accepts the Promoter of Justice's request
after forensic tests show the remains found in a common grave in the Vatican
cemetery are all dated much further back than the disappearance of Emanuela
Orlandi.
By Vatican News
“The proceeding relative to the alleged entombment of
Emanuela Orlandi’s remains in the Vatican in the Teutonic Cemetery has been
closed by the Single Judge of Vatican City State who had received the request
from the Office of the Promoter of Justice”. This is according the Judge’s
statement that was released by the Holy See Press Office on Thursday. The
statement also includes information regarding the human remains found in the
ossuaries adjacent to the two tombs that were opened in July 2019 revealing
they date further back in time before Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance.
Case Summary
The case had been opened in the summer of last year
following a complaint filed by the Orlandi family. Emanuela was the daughter of
a Holy See employee who resided with his family within Vatican City State. She
disappeared on 22 June 1983 in the centre of Rome.
Substantiating the complaint were indications (provided by
an anonymous source) that a tomb in the Teutonic Cemetery may have contained
her remains which have never been found. Responding to the complaint, the
Promoter of Justice, Gian Piero Milano, and his Assistant, Alessandro Diddi,
had granted access to the burial ground and the opening of two tombs located
next to each other inside the Teutonic Cemetery. Both tombs were found to be
empty.
Investigations last summer brought to light that work had
been undertaken to expand the Teutonic College in the 1960s and 70s. The graves
of Princesses Sophie von Hohenlohe and Carlotta Federica di Mecklemburgo, both
of whom had died in the 19th century, were empty. Further
investigations undertaken that same day ended with the discover of two
ossuaries that had been placed under the flooring in an area closed with a trap
door inside the Pontifical Teutonic College. The Promoter of Justice
decided to immediately seal the two ossuaries in view of further analysis.
Conclusion of the case
Today’s statement reads that “the conclusions on these
findings”, carried out by Prof. Giovanni Arcudi, an expert present as a
consultant on behalf of the Orlandi family, “have resolved that the fragments
that were found can be dated back to before the disappearance of poor Emanuela.
The most recent of them dates to at least 100 years ago. Thus the request to
archive the case closes this sad chapter regarding the disappearance of
Emanuela Orlandi, in which Vatican Authorities offered, from the beginning, the
widest possible collaboration."
In this same spirit of collaboration and attention to the
requests made by Emanuela Orlandi's family, the statement notes that “the order
filed allows the Orlandi family to proceed privately with any further
investigations on the same fragments already found, which are kept sealed in
containers in the offices of the Vatican Gendarmeria”.
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