Italian film director Roberto
Faenza said his latest movie "The Truth is in the Sky" is aimed
at encouraging authorities to reopen the case of Emanuela
Orlandi, a teenage Vatican citizen who went missing over 30
years ago.
Italy's highest appeals court earlier this year upheld a
decision for investigations into the disappearance of Orlandi to
be shelved. Another girl, Mirella Gregori, and Orlandi vanished
in mysterious circumstances respectively in May and June 1983.
Six people including a priest were implicated in the
investigations on suspicion of complicity in abduction and
murder. All but one had links with the Banda della Magliana, a
now-defunct crime gang based in Rome.
Orlandi's brother Pietro said during a news conference that
he was most interested in finding out why Rome Chief Prosecutor
Giuseppe Pignatone had decided to shelve the case despite the
existence of several investigation strands that could be
pursued.
He urged the Vatican "to finally make public the classified
dossier" which could shed light on what happened.
Faenza said "the magistracy has closed the investigations
with 88 pages of archives that contain all the elements to go
ahead. And then why won't the Vatican bring out this dossier?
This would be the last step towards the truth. I don't think the
film will manage to do it, but I believe in Pope Francis, who
loves transparency. I'm optimistic".
The film, inspired by Vito Bruschini's "The Truth on the
Orlandi Case" book, tells the story of an English TV station
which sends a journalist to Rome to investigate the origins of
the Mafia Capitale scandal involving city authorities' links to
criminal organisations.
"The Truth is in the Sky" is a phrase that Pope Franics
said when he met Orlandi's family in the Vatican, Faenza said,
adding that in fact he believes the truth is on earth and his
film is aimed at encouraging investigators to keep pursuing it.
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