Chaouqui says doesn't want pardon

ANSA
December 7, 2015

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Rome, December 7 - Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, a PR who is among five suspects in the Vatileaks 2 trial, said after a brief hearing Monday that she is not hoping to receive a pardon from Pope Francis since she is innocent of the charges levelled against her by the Vatican.
    "I am not expecting anything from the pontiff and any such gesture is not what I want in any case," she told reporters who asked her if she was hoping for a papal pardon. "I am innocent and one doesn't pardon the innocent, one acquits them".
    Chaouqui is on trial along investigative journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda and his former assistant Nicola Maio.
    The trial opened last month and the second hearing last week, like Monday's, was quickly adjourned.
    Chaouqui, Balda and Maio are charged with leaking the confidential material and Nuzzi and Fittipaldi with using it in two recently published books - one titled Avarice, the other Merchants in the Temple - documenting alleged Vatican waste and mismanagement and lavish spending by clergymen.
    Chaouqui's defence lawyer, Laura Sgrò, confirmed that nobody has been interrogated so far, and said that only jurisdictional matters were discussed.
    "We are satisfied, our requests were accepted," she said, "the list of witnesses was allowed and also some experts were allowed". Vallejo Balda and Chaouqui were both members of the now-defunct COSEA commission set up to advise Pope Francis on reform of the Holy See's economic-administrative structure.