VATICAN CITY
The Kansas City Star
By PETER MAYER
dpa
VATICAN CITY — A Vatican magistrate will next week begin to question Pope Benedict XVI’s butler who is in custody for allegedly stealing papal documents, the pontiff’s spokesman said Thursday.
Paolo Gabriele’s questioning “should take place not before next Monday or even Tuesday,” Father Federico Lombardi said.
Gabriele, 46, a Vatican citizen, was arrested last Friday and has since been charged with theft, following the discovery of the documents in the flat he shares with his wife and three children.
It is believed that among the documents found in the butler’s possession are several that in recent months were leaked to Italian newspapers.
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