The Vatican may take legal action
Two Vatican officials have been
arrested in what seems to be a new TV season of “Vatileaks”. This is three and
a half years after the scandal involving the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, who
disseminated top secret papers that he had photocopied in the secretariat of
Pope Benedict XVI.
Now at the centre of
investigations are two books containing confidential documents, “Avarizia"
by Emiliano Fittipaldi and "Via Crucis" by Gianluigi Nuzzi.
This time, the man to be
investigated for the leaking of the documents is a Vatican monsignor, a
high-ranking Spanish clergyman, Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, who was
arrested in the Vatican at the weekend.
Francesca Immacolata
Chaouqui, who like Balda was a former member of the COSEA commission on the
Holy See's economic-administrative structure, was also arrested. Chaouqui is
cooperating with investigators and was released after questioning, a Vatican
statement said.
Monsignor Vallejo Balda
remains under detention inside the Vatican.
The intention of Fittipaldi’s
book is to “shed light on how many deposits there are, even in the Church of
Francis, and how much effort the pope makes, just for the presence of billions
at stake, to transform it into a 'poor Church and one for the poor'. "
Fittipaldi believes that
"it is not a coincidence" that "Via Crucis" by Nuzzi was
released simultaneously, which has, at least in part similar documents and that
reports even recordings of things said by the Pope in closed meetings in
Vatican.
The statement from the
Vatican said that the Vatican authorities may take legal action, including
criminal proceedings, against the books in question.
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