VATICAN CITY
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – They are the pope’s shadow, his bodyguards both within the borders of the Vatican and during trips abroad. They are the police of the world’s smallest state.
But while the Vatican’s gendarmes are trained to protect Benedict XVI from external threats, this time they are hunting people who may be hiding within his inner circle.
Together with other arcane institutions of the ancient Vatican state, they are trying to track down who is behind a leak of the pope’s secret papers in a scandal that has shaken the papacy after the arrest of his butler.
The prosecution will be led by the “Promotor of Justice,” Nicola Picardi, who like other top officials in the Vatican’s judiciary is named by the pope and exercises his powers on the pontiff’s behalf.
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