The documentary focuses heavily on the role of the Vatican
It would be interesting to calculate how many hours TV has dedicated to the case of Emanuela Orlandi (plus the film by Roberto Faenza, The truth is in heaven), a 15-year-old girl, daughter of a Vatican official, kidnapped on June 22, 1983 and never found again. Of course, the story is dramatic and the darkness that surrounds it not a little anguish, even today. The hypotheses are wasted: from the KGB to the Turkish nationalist movement of the Gray Wolves of which the attacker of Pope John Paul II, Ali Agca, was part, to the alleged “attentions” of the then powerful president of the IOR Paul Marcinkus. According to former judge Ferdinando Imposimato, Emanuela would live in Turkey, happy with her partner who is also one of her kidnappers. According to other investigators, the kidnapping took place to exert pressure on the Vatican, to which the Banda della Magliana had lent a large sum of money to be allocated to the Polish union Solidarnosc. A docu-series has recently landed on Netflix, destined to make people discuss: Vatican Girl: the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi.
In four episodes, the author and director Mark Lewis mixes story and investigation, according to a trait that the platform has been experiencing for some time also with respect to more recent news cases. Through the voice of Emanuela’s sisters and brother, of disturbing witnesses (this is the case of Sabrina Minardi, former partner of the footballer Bruno Giordano and of the Magliana boss, Renatino De Pedis), an attempt is made to put together the pieces of a deadly puzzle. Based on some revelations contained in the so-called VatiLeaks, the documentary focuses not just on the role of the Vatican, so much so that Carlo Calenda, after having seen the series, asked that the Foreign Minister “demand” the truth about Emanuela’s case from the Vatican . The impression is that those who seek the “mystery” everywhere do not necessarily go to the bottom of things.
November 4, 2022 (change November 5, 2022 | 07:20)
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