VATICAN CITY
7 News
Vatican City (AFP) – Italian public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui, arrested for allegedly stealing confidential documents from the Vatican, said Wednesday it was her co-accused, a Spanish priest, who secretly recorded the pope’s conversations.
Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, who was also arrested on the weekend, is currently languishing in a Vatican jail, while Chaouqui was released Monday after cooperating with authorities on a case that has embarrassed the Church.
“It was Balda who recorded Pope Francis, I didn’t know anything about it,” the 33-year-old said in an interview published in La Repubblica on Wednesday in which she distanced herself completely from her former friend.
And she said she was not the only one who knew Vallejo Balda, 54, had been recording the pope without his knowledge.
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