VATICAN CITY
Rappler
by Agence France-Presse
Posted on 10/12/2012
VATICAN CITY – Vatican prosecutors may appeal the 18-month jail sentence handed to Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler for theft of confidential papers once the full judgement has been published, a Vatican spokesman said Friday, October 12.
Paolo Gabriele was found guilty on Saturday of stealing secret papal documents which revealed fraud scandals and intrigue at the heart of the Church. He is not appealing the verdict, but his immediate fate is still unclear.
“It’s all still open, there has been no delay,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said when asked why Gabriele is still under house arrest. The Vatican has no prison, so should he go to jail he would have to serve time in Italy.
Lombardi was unable to give any precise timetable for the publication of the judgement or the prosecution’s decision over whether to appeal or not.
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