Emanuela Orlandi, family requests documents held by the Services (classified)

Emanuela Orlandi, family filed a formal request for access to documents in a case that has remained unsolved for forty years. The request was addressed to Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Mantovano as a delegate of the Information and Security Service. Lawyer Laura Sgro is requesting access to documents related to the “Orlandi case”, even if they are covered by state secrets, for reasons of “obvious family interest”.

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Request

The request came because the records kept by the Orlandi family “suggest that SISMI, now Ayse, was definitely investigating the kidnapping of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregory,” explains Sgro. These will be three folders with documents that were then, in 1993, requested as part of the investigation into the attack on John Paul II, but in fact remained physically at the SISMI headquarters on Via dei Selci.

Documentation

The room was sealed to keep it accessible to the magistrate, who requested access to the documents. A high-ranking SISMI official actually stated the need for a prohibited disclosure obligation because the documentation contained data on persons, structures and activities that were of a confidential nature, in particular with regard to relations with certain relevant foreign services. Subsequently, the investigating judge Adele Rando, in connection with the criminal proceedings against unknown persons in the cases of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregory, demanded the immediate receipt of this documentation, but these dossiers were never included in the materials related to the investigations. according to what is known to the Orlandi family, the prosecutor’s office of Rome. Hence the request for access to these documents, since about the history of Emanuela Orlandi, despite the fact that forty years have passed since her abduction, “we know practically nothing,” emphasizes lawyer Laura Sgro.

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