Emanuela Orlandi, sit-in in Rome. The brother: «Here also from Cagliari to say: no more silences». The Pope: "Close to the family"
Demonstration in the capital to remember the young woman who disappeared into thin air exactly 40 years ago
Pietro Orlandi with demonstrators in Rome (Ansa)
"The thing that strikes me even if we may be fewer, are the many people who have come from outside Rome and from outside Italy".
Thus Pietro Orlandi , during the sit-in organized in Rome to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of his sister Emanuela , who vanished into thin air in June 1983 .
«There are people who have also come from Cagliari . And from Pescara, Venice, from Germany, from Taranto, Milan, Lugano, Naples, La Spezia, Udine, Giulianova, Viareggio, London and even from Romania», explained Orlandi, during the event in Largo Giovanni XXIII.
Speaking of the mystery surrounding his sister's fate, Pietro added: "Silence is useless, if we are still here after 40 years, it is because not only me but many people like you do not passively accept injustices".
According to Emanuela's brother, in order to shed light on the yellow, it is necessary "to clarify some situations", in particular with regard to the clamor aroused by his words about Saint John Paul II.
"There shouldn't be untouchable people in 2023 - he concluded - also because I look at people without the dress they wear, without the dress people are all the same".
At midday the demonstration reached St. Peter's Square for Pope Francis' Angelus . And after the prayer, the pontiff also wanted to remember Emanuela: " I express my closeness to the Orlandi family , especially to my mother", the words spoken by Bergoglio in front of the crowd.
A greeting, that of the Holy Father, which Pietro Orlandi accepted as the "fall of a taboo".
«The story – added Orlandi – will certainly not end with this Angelus. It will end when we have the truth, but today's is a big step forward."
(Unioneonline/lf)
