ROME
Lez Get Real
Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on April 4, 2012.
In June of 1983, Emanuela Orlandi disappeared. She was the fifteen year old daughter of a Vatican employee, and now prosecutors in Rome are saying that someone in that vast edifice knows what happened to her. Almost three decades ago, she was kidnapped by unidentified men, and her disappearance may be connected to the alleged financial misdeeds of the Vatican bank.
According to the Telegraph:
One theory is that the girl’s father, a Vatican employee, had stumbled on documents that connected the Vatican’s bank with organised crime in Rome and that she was seized in an attempt to silence him. The alleged mastermind of the kidnapping was Enrico “Renatino” De Pedis, the leader of the Magliana gang, Rome’s most ruthless criminal band.
He was shot dead by rival gangsters in a street in central Rome in 1990 and his body interred in a crypt in the Basilica of Sant’ Apollinare.
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