Is there a connection between the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and Judge Adinolfi’s ransacking of the Casa del Jazz built from assets confiscated from the Banda della Magliana? What are the most concrete clues examined by this new investigation? In the final episode of “The State of Things” broadcast last night on Rai Tre, Massimo Giletti presented “a very secret document in which it turns out there are very secret pages about the Emanuela family and especially about Uncle Mario. There is very sensitive information, four pages are missing from this document, currently in the Rome Prosecutor’s Office. Who deleted these four pages? What is written in them?”, asked the TV presenter and journalist.
We are talking about Mario Meneguzzi, whose traces were returned by the program’s correspondents more than forty years later. Mario Megeuzzi’s uncle was at the center of the investigation in the weeks following Emanuela’s disappearance, and again several years ago when a letter from then-Vatican Foreign Minister Agostino Casaroli, whom he criticized in Tg La7, was sent secretly with a message via diplomatic post to a South American priest sent to Colombia by John Paul II, who in the past was Orlandi’s spiritual adviser and confessor. According to reports, the letter was requested by investigators and aims to clarify whether the religious man was aware of the fact that Meneguzzi had made verbal advances towards Natalina, Emanuela’s older sister. Natalina said that these were just simple verbal advances towards her, dating back to 1978 and that “they were things that everyone, the investigating judge and the investigators knew about. It ended there and led to nothing”.
From AISI secret service documents we read that there were investigations into family members and Mario in particular, but also other family members and acquaintances, that followed.
The attention that the Rai 3 broadcast paid to Meneguzzi sparked an angry reaction from Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela’s brother. “Today I am even more angry than other days”, he said on Storie Italiane, Rai Eleonora Daniele’s program, “we are talking about three different main characters at the same time”. “Not to mention, I sincerely tell you Eleonora, the shameful service that Giletti performed last night – continued the man – exclusively tarnished the family with false things”. “Yesterday I never heard the word ‘Vatican’.”
The track, which is family friendly, is considered by Pietro to be a kind of misdirection. However, during the broadcast, Giletti clearly underlined the new element: “This document is in the hands of the prosecutor’s office but has serious flaws, four pages of a highly classified investigation that also concerns Uncle Mario”.
