The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bill setting up a joint parliamentary commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Vatican teenagers Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori in 1983. The vote was made by a show of hands. © ANSA
- ROME, NOV 9 - The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bill setting up a joint parliamentary commission of inquiry into the disappearance of Vatican teenagers Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori in 1983. "I am happy, I was waiting for this news with confidence," Pietro Orlandi, brother of the then 15-year-old who disappeared while returning home from a flute lesson in Rome on 22 June 1983, told ANSA after the vote.
"I am convinced that we will get to the truth, it cannot be hidden forever. I thank the senators who voted for the Commission," said Orlandi. Her father was a worker at the Institute for the Works of Religion , the Vatican Bank), according to some reports, or an employee of the papal household, according to others.