The brother of Emanuela Orlandi, a
15-year-old Vatican City resident who disappeared in 1983, did
not accuse anyone when he met Vatican prosecutor Alessandro
Diddi to talk about the case on Tuesday, his lawyer said on
Friday.
After the eight-hour meeting Pietro Orlandi said he had put
"names and surnames" on the record.
But his lawyer Laura Sgrò said this did not mean he had fingered
suspects.
"Mr Orlandi did not intend to formulate accusations against
anyone, he reiterated that to the prosecutor, and he wrote it in
the deposition he presented during his testimony," said Sgrò.
"He only asked that the quest for the truth should not be
conditioned in any way.
"He is sorry that some people have misinterpreted his statements
by manipulating some things extrapolated from them".
Emanuela Orlandi disappeared while returning home from a flute
lesson in Rome on 22 June 1983.
The girl's disappearance sparked an intense media frenzy in
Italy that has resulted in the case being called "Italy's most
famous unsolved mystery".
Emanuela was the fourth of five children of Ercole and Maria
Orlandi.
Her father was a Vatican employee and the family lived inside
Vatican City.
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