The Abduction of Emanuela Orlandi: Personal Involvement of Renatino De Pedis

"The abduction of Emanuela Orlandi concerned Renatino De Pedis on a personal level and not as part of the Banda della Magliana," a kidnapping in which De Pedis would have acted as a laborer without even knowing what the real purpose was. This is the belief of prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo, who long led the investigations into the Orlandi case, and was heard yesterday by the Inquiry Commission. Emanuela Orlandi, the unpublished audio: the voice of a girl emerges. The new mystery on 'Chi l'ha visto?' Other missing girls Capaldo spoke of Marco Accetti as a figure 'not easily dismissed' and of the disappearance that year, 1983, of a considerable number of girls. 'An in-depth investigation that has never been done but has not been wanted - he said - is to understand why only in that year 54 young women of the age of Mirella Gregori and Emanuela disappeared in Rome, girls who have never been found again. The last of these vanished at the end of July. What is the explanation? An analysis has never been done.' The two cases, however, according to the former prosecutor, 'can be treated together with the warning that the perpetrators could be different.' De Pedis' lover Crucial are some words of Sabina Minardi, long-time lover of Renatino, 'reliable until she starts muddling her statements to protect herself,' but also some little-known findings. 'The Banda della Magliana has nothing to do with it, Enrico de Pedis is involved - said Capaldo - and it is a significant difference, the Orlandi case is a 'personal' affair of De Pedis who had a personal issue with Father Pietro Vergari, born from imprisonment.' Minardi would have been reliable 'when she recounts the sudden meeting with what she then understood to be Emanuela Orlandi, when De Pedis arranged to meet her at the Gianicolo, to hand her over to a character along the Aurelian walls. This circumstance is important because it was completely unexpected.' The driver Here Capaldo reported an important finding, that of De Pedis' driver: 'One of these subjects who would have participated in the kidnapping has been identified as Sergio Virtù, Renatino's driver, who had a completely unknown personal relationship with him.' Virtù was a character 'of a certain stature, he was convicted by two sentences but the appeal was never carried out because of his ability to corrupt court officials, he was embedded in such a strong context that he even managed to handle the practices of the Roman clerks, he was a sort of great swindler, this was the reason why De Pedis had hired him, because he would never have been noticed.' The cardinal Capaldo then reconstructed the red thread that linked De Pedis to Father Pietro Vergari in turn linked to Cardinal Poletti. 'De Pedis' presence in this affair was not because the Banda della Magliana wanted to blackmail the Vatican, it is of another kind, it is another activity, he does not manage the relations with the Vatican.' His role, rather, was to 'organize the abduction and kidnapping of the girl and then hand her over to an unidentified person, De Pedis does not even know why the kidnapping, De Pedis is to be seen as the one who materially organized a service for someone.' 'It is not only Minardi who recounts this kidnapping - he added - Marco Sarnataro would also have participated, the father declares he learned from his son that he participated in the kidnapping, a confession made by Sarnataro to his father after Faina was killed. Sarnataro is also identified by two of Orlandi's friends.' Capaldo will return to the commission next Thursday to answer more questions from the Commission.