VATICAN CITY
Swissinfo
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Vatican police on Friday arrested a person in possession of confidential documents in the first break in an investigation of the so-called “Vatileaks” scandal involving the leaking of secret papers including papal letters.
Italian media said the arrested man was someone who worked in the apartments of Pope Benedict but Vatican spokesmen said they would not disclose the man’s identity until they had a green light from investigating magistrates.
A Vatican source said the person was not a priest. Another senior source said: “It’s all very sad”.
For much of this year, the Vatican has been at the centre of a scandal involving the leak to Italian media of documents, some of them personal letters to the pope.
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