VATICAN CITY
Yahoo! News
Vatican City (AFP) – Francesca Chaouqui, the PR consultant at the centre of the Vatican’s controversial leaks trial, threatened to “destroy” a Spanish priest she worked with, a Holy See court heard on Tuesday.
“I will destroy you in the press and you know I can do it,” Choauqui allegedly wrote in a WhatsAPP message to Spanish monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda that was cited by the prosecution in the case against two journalists and three Vatican employees.
Vallejo Balda has admitted leaking classified documents to the two journalists, who have written books on the mismanagement of Vatican finances.
But he says he only did so under pressure from Chaouqui, with whom he claims to have had a “compromising” relationship.
Chaouqui, a former PR consultant to the Vatican who is married and six months pregnant, denies any sexual contact between her former colleague in an economic reform panel set up by Pope Francis.
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