«They tell me that Wojtyla sometimes went out in the evening with two Polish monsignors and certainly didn't go to bless houses...» . The words pronounced by Pietro Orlandi in the last episode of "DiMartedì", on La 7, with which the brother of the girl, a Vatican citizen, who disappeared in 1983, reiterated his suspicions about the Polish Pope , made a saint on 27 April 2014, and generally on pedophilia in the Vatican during his pontificate.
Orlandi's statement (who in recent days met with the Vatican promoter of justice Alessandro Diddi, with whom he had an 8-hour conversation regarding the latest developments in the Emanuela case) immediately triggered reactions, even vehement ones. Like that of Osservatore Romano , the Vatican newspaper. “Evidence? None. Clues? Least of all. Testimonials at least second or third hand? Not even the shadow. Only anonymous defamatory accusations», reads an editorial signed by the editorial director of the Vatican media Andra Tornielli.
“Madness - adds the newspaper of the Holy See - and we are not saying this because Karol Wojtyła is a saint or because he was pope. Even if this media massacre saddens and dismays by wounding the hearts of millions of believers and non-believers, the defamation must be denounced because it is unworthy of a civilized country to treat any person in this way, living or dead, whether cleric or layman, pope, metalworker or young unemployed".
Tornielli underlines how Pietro Orlandi's words are accompanied by an audio attributed to a self-styled member of the Banda della Magliana "who asserts - also without proof, clues, testimonies, findings or circumstances - that John Paul II" also brought them together those in the Vatican”, meaning Emanuela and other girls». And that "to put an end to this 'crap', the secretary of state at the time would have turned to organized crime to solve the problem".
