Lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary inquest into a 40-year-old missing person case with ties to the Vatican.
This week, Italian lawmakers filed a petition for a parliamentary inquest into the 1983 disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, whose conspiracy-theory laden case was recently the subject of the Netflix docuseries “Vatican Girl.” The four-part series brought renewed attention to the case, with Netflix using the original missing person posters plastered around Rome as its advertising for the documentary.
A similar petition will also be filed in Italy’s senate, which could easily pass if Italy’s new right-wing government doesn’t quash it. Parliamentary inquiries, which are often passed to investigate organized crime and financial crimes, are common in Italy. It is unclear if this would pass both houses of parliament, but if it does, it would send a clear signal to the Vatican that suspicions still linger over the matter. As the Netflix series pointed out, just as many other documentaries have over the last four decades, all roads in the case seem to lead squarely to the Holy See.
But the parliamentary inquiry would ask them to open the archives, including phone records and movement of people, in the days and months after Orlandi went missing. A number of people called a hotline giving tips, but the Orlandi family says Vatican men came into answer calls in their private apartment in the days after.
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