Fiorenza Sarzanini (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Stforty years have passed since Emanuela Orlandi disappeared. It was June 22, 1983.
Since then all leads have been beatenfrom the international seizure to the kidnapping carried out by crime, from the involvement of the secret services to that of high prelates.
The family of the young Vatican citizen never gave up, her brother Pietro has never stopped looking for her. True and false repentants, true and false witnesses, true and false 007 spoke about her.
But no one has ever provided a proof that allowed to grasp the right thread to tie up the skein again, no one has been able or willing to give an indication that could prevail over the others and indicate the way to arrive at the truth.
In the last few weeks, since when it was decided to set up a parliamentary commission of inquiry to review what has emerged so far and try to give an order to the scattered pieces collected, the climate is further poisoned. Feeding again the suspicion that Emanuela was the instrument of such heavy blackmail as to become unmentionable.
It’s right to go on, continue to explore every possible clue in order to find out who and why he took her away, what happened to her. We must not give up, every document must be re-readevery statement verified again, one must hold on to even the slightest foothold to solve one of the mysteries that certainly marks the history of our country.
Emanuela Orlandi, disappeared in 1983 in Rome (IPA photo).
And to do this, we need to start from a question that still remains unanswered: because Renato De Pedis, boss of the Magliana gang who according to some witnesses may have played a role in the affair, he obtained to be buried in great secrecy in the church of Sant’Apollinare as he always wanted?
What had he done to get a privilege denied to many other benefactors of the Church who perhaps would have had the right?
If you really want to try to find out what happened that day 40 years ago, this is where you have to start over.clearing the field of inferences, defamatory suspicions, personal vendettas.
And especially eliminating from the scene those characters who in all this time have had misdirection as their primary objective. The first to do so are the family members so as not to allow anyone to circulate more mud.
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