the truth of the pm Capaldo in the Commission

Not the Magliana Bandbut only Enrico De Pedis. A personal story of ‘Renatino’. In the case of Emanuela Orlandi the leader of the Gang would be involved, according to Giancarlo Capaldo, heard today by the Commission of Inquiry into the disappearances of Emanuela Orlandi and of Mirella Gregori. Capaldo was deputy prosecutor at the Rome prosecutor’s office and, from 2019 to 2015, head of the investigation into the disappearance of the two girls in 1983.

For Capaldo, the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi is linked “to a personal affair of Enrico De Pedis. Her presence is not because the Magliana gang wants to blackmail someone like the Pope and the Vatican, it is another type of activity that is being put into action”.

For Capaldo, ‘Renatino’“had the role of organizing the abduction and kidnapping of the girl and then the return of the girl to an unidentified person”. De Pedis, according to the former prosecutor, “did not even know why Emanuela Orlandi had been kidnapped, nor did he participate in the management of any subsequent negotiations. He should be seen as the one who organized, on a material level, a low-level but very useful and particular service for someone”.

Capaldo further stressed that Sabrina MinardiDe Pedis’ ex, “is not completely reliable, but I consider it reliable on some main data”. One of these is the story of the meeting with a girl, who he later understood to be Emanuela Orlandi, when De Pedis arranged to meet her at the Gianicolo, and then handed the girl over to an unidentified person in via della Mura Aureliane. “This circumstance is important because it was completely unexpected”.

In this sense Capaldo speaks of the possible role of De Pedis’ driver: “One of these individuals who allegedly participated in the kidnapping has been identified as Sergio Virtù, De Pedis’ personal driver”.

In 2010, when Capaldo was in charge of the investigation, it was Sabrina Minardi who brought up De Pedis’ driver, defined as a non-organic element of the Banda della Magliana. Minardi said that after the kidnapping, Emanuela remained hidden for ten days at her home in Torvajaniica, then in an apartment in Monteverde and then was accompanied by car, by her, De Pedis and the driver, to a gas station along the Vatican walls. There she was picked up by a priest.