VATICAN CITY
Reuters
By Philip Pullella and Naomi O’Leary
VATICAN CITY | Wed Oct 3, 2012
(Reuters) – Pope Benedict’s former butler Paolo Gabriele, on trial for stealing and leaking papal documents, possessed papers the pope had marked “to be destroyed,” police testified at his Vatican trial on Wednesday.
On the third day of the process, held under a 19th century Italian penal code, members of the Holy See’s small police force said the theft of encrypted documents had compromised some Vatican operations.
They also found instructions that Gabriele had printed on how to hide files in computers and how to use cellphones secretly.
Members of the Corps of Gendarmerie said many newspaper clippings, books and other material seized in the search of Gabriele’s apartment showed he was fascinated by the occult, Masonic lodges, secret services, and past Vatican and Italian scandals.
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