VATICAN CITY
GlobalPost
One of the two Italian investigative journalists facing criminal proceedings for revealing Vatican secrets said Tuesday he had been quizzed by Holy See prosecutors.
Emiliano Fittipaldi said he had responded to a Vatican summons to face questioning “because I wanted to understand” the motivations for his prosecution over the contents of his recently published book “Avarice.”
The book is largely based on classified documents which were leaked in breach of an anti-whistle-blowing law enacted by the Vatican in 2013 with the blessing of Pope Francis.
“The accusations are crazy,” Fittpaldi said. “Such restrictive laws do not exist in any democratic state.”
Fittipaldi said he had come away from his interrogation convinced the landmark case would end in a trial of a Spanish priest currently in detention on suspicion of leaking the documents.
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