VATICAN CITY
ANSA
(ANSA) – Vatican City, December 11 – The Vatileaks 2 trial may take up to two months to resume, Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said Friday.
“A delay of two months is plausible” given the time needed to prepare various expert testimony, he said.
Earlier this week a Holy See court ruled that Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin should be called as a witness.
The court granted a request by the defence team of one of the five accused, Francesca Chaouqui, to call as witnesses Parolin and Santos Abril y Castello’, the president of the Commission of Cardinals of the Vatican bank, IOR.
The court rejected a petition by Chaouqui’s lawyers challenging the Vatican’s jurisdiction over the case on the grounds that the alleged crimes took place in Italy.
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