Police on Thursday arrested
Friar Gratien Alabi in connection with the disappearance last
year of 50-year-old Guerrina Piscaglia.
The housewife and mother of a 22-year-old son went to the
rectory of the local church after a family lunch on the
afternoon of May 1, 2014, and was never seen again.
Extensive police searches using dogs conducted in the
surrounding countryside failed to turn up any trace of
Piscaglia, who lived in the hamlet of Ca' Raffaello in Arezzo
province.
Prosecutors later placed Alabi, a Congolese national, under
investigation on suspicion of kidnapping and possible murder
after he told a TV show about missing persons that Piscaglia had
told him she was pregnant and that he was the father.
Alabi denies having had sex with Piscaglia.
A search of the friar's home, car, and belongings
reportedly turned up a series of pornographic photos of nuns in
a state of undress on his computer.
Last month, a Romanian prostitute told police Alabi was one
of her habitual clients, paying her 500 euros per session.
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