“checks May Have Been Carried out on Two or Three Individuals”

Vatican Insider
February 28, 2013

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Federico Lombardi

“During the Vatileaks affair the Vatican’s investigating judge may have ordered some interceptions and checks; nothing major, just two or three.” The director of the Vatican Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, said this during this morning’s press conference, in reference to some claims made by Italian current affairs magazine, Panorama.

“Interceptions and surveillance activities were not as described,” Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi said, in response to journalists’ questions regarding the content of an article published by Panorama magazine, on an investigation apparently ordered by the Roman Curia, involving the interception of telephone calls during the Vatileaks scandal.

According to Lombardi the magazine’s claims “are unfounded” and “actual events were blown out of proportion” in the article. “During the Vatileaks affair, the investigating judge – and therefore not ordered by the Secretariat of State - may have authorised some interceptions and checks, but I can assure you these were not major and there were no widespread checks.” “Checks may have been carried out on two or three individuals – he added – by authorisation of the Vatican City judiciary. It is not true that any widespread checks were carried out.”