A Mystery? Security Cameras Did not Work When Cardinal Pell Died
He vowed at Pell's coffin to get to the truth. Milone, a Dutch-born Italian businessman and former partner at multinational accounting giant Deloitte, is the last survivor of the trio appointed in 2015 to reform the Vatican's financial system, of which Cardinal Pell was the head. The third colleague, Ferruccio Panicco, died of cancer in June 2023 at the age of 63.
Cardinal Pell died in January 2023, aged 81, of cardiac arrest following hip surgery in Rome, although he awoke after the operation and appeared well.
TheAustralian.com.au writes that at least two of Cardinal Pell's closest confidants had urged him not to undergo the operation in Rome for safety reasons, but to return to Australia for the procedure.
Nevertheless, the Cardinal opted to have the operation at the Salvator Mundi Hospital, a very posh private hospital in Rome that was originally founded by nuns but is now part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
According to TheAustralian.com.au, the hospital's surveillance cameras were not working at the time of Cardinal Pell's death. It also claims that there was no doctor on duty to assist Cardinal Pell on the night of his death.
It continues: "Rumours have swirled around the Holy See for months that Pell's body was left in disarray after the autopsy and was not properly dressed, raising further concerns about his final hours."
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