Information for journalists

In response to the questions received by the Office of the Promoter of Justice concerning the news that has appeared in the press in recent days about the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, has specified that:

“The Office of the Promoter of Justice is actively cooperating with the competent Italian authorities. Precisely in this spirit, last 19 April, the Vatican magistrates confidentially handed over to Italy, subject to investigative cconfidentiality, the available documentation relating to the case, including what had been collected in the preceding months in the course of the investigation.

The Holy See shares the family's desire to obtain the truth about the events and, to this end, hopes that all investigative hypotheses will be explored.

Regarding the news involving a relative of Emanuela, it is noted that the correspondence in question expressly indicates that there was no violation of the sacramental seal of Confession”.