VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
Today the magistrate committed Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s butler, for trial. He is charged with aggravated theft of confidential papal documents
Giacomo Galeazzi
Rome
In the sentence of indictment by the examining magistrate Piero Antonio Bonnet, it has been revealed that one more person has been charged with aiding and abetting and breaching confidentiality: Claudio Sciarpelletti, employee of the Secretariat of State and computer expert who had been arrested on the 25th of May, even though at the time the news wasn’t made public.
The Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi explained that Sciarpelletti’s role was “marginal”. Among the documents seized from Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s butler who today has been committed for trial, charged with aggravated theft of confidential papers belonging to the Holy See, the Vatican gendarmerie also found a cheque dated 26th of March 2012 and made out to His Holiness Benedict XVI for the amount of 100 thousand euros, a gold nugget and a 1581edition of a translated version of the Aeneid. During his time in prison, starting from his arrest on the 23rd of May and up until the 21st of July when he was granted house arrest, Paolo Gabriele underwent psychiatric evaluation.
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