Orlandi Case: Francis Turns Tragedy into Comedy

Emanuela Orlandi, 15, the daughter of a Vatican employee who lived in the Vatican, disappeared in June 1983 while returning home from a flute lesson in Rome's historic centre. She was never seen again.

From 1974 to 2013, in Italy, 27K people have disappeared and are still missing, 226 per year. Before she disappeared, Emanuela called home to say she had received a "job offer" from the cosmetics company Avon.

Recently, the oligarchs' media have been promoting her brother Pietro who has been making accusations out of thin air, claiming that the Vatican “knew the truth” and that John Paul II regularly left the Vatican to abuse minors (sic).

Now Francis – who foolishly told the Orlandi family in 2013 that Emanuela was “in heaven” - has fallen for this fraud, and he ordered an "official investigation."

This is where the tragedy turns into comedy. For the Vatican judge Giuseppe Pignatone is the same one who signed the closure of the Italian case on Emanuela's abduction in 2015, when he was chief prosecutor in Rome. The trial had dragged on for 32 years.

Now, Pignatone wants to achieve what he and his colleagues admitted they hadn't been able to do in 32 years. "It looks like a joke," comments IlSismografo.

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