VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
by Sandro Magister
ROME, August 13, 2012 – The judicial process has been set for Paolo Gabriele, the unfaithful butler of Benedict XVI.
Next autumn, he will be tried for the aggravated theft of confidential documents, copies of which he took from the pontifical apartment.
On the last working day before the summer closure of the Vatican tribunals, investigating judge Piero Antonio Bonnet granted the request of the prosecutor, Nicola Picardi, and ordered that a trial be held. It will also involve a second defendant, Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer technician at the secretariat of state, but he will face a lesser charge of aiding and abetting, in practice for obstructing the investigation into his relationship with the main defendant.
The complete texts of the complaint and the indictment, each of them fifteen pages long, have been released by the Vatican press office:
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