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The author of the book containing the documents leaked from the Vatican comments on the Vatileaks affair. “There are too many irregularities in the Vatican,” he says
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“I am hopeful for an open trial that will examine all documents, I hope evidence will be made public and the reasons for slinging mud at the individuals involved. But I don’t believe the Vatican will.” Gianluigi Nuzzi – author of the bestselling book “Sua Santità” (His Holiness) which contains the documents leaked to him by the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele (the butler admitted to this himself and was committed for trial last week together with an IT technician) – stated this during an interview with Il Giornale di Vicenza, a regional Italian newspaper, commenting on the conclusion of the preliminary investigation into the theft of the Pope’s confidential documents.
Commenting on the fact that he had not been contacted either by Vatican or Italian judicial police bodies (“No. Nobody asked me to confirm any information either on an investigation or a judicial level”), the journalist claimed “that there are many irregularities in the attitudes taken by the Vatican. Starting with the Calvi case. I believe that in relation to my book, there was a greater focus on the document leak and on who – cook, butler, guard or whoever else –handed these to me than on what the documents say.”
Nuzzi did not comment on whether Gabriele was his only source, though he explained that “my sources are based on information based relations with various individuals who contributed to my work, whom I must protect. Whoever gave me the letters is highly trusted.” As far as the attacks received for spreading the news, he stressed: “I did not steal anything; I have not committed any crime. I published documents which readers ask to be informed about because everything that is out of sight in terms of politics, finance, banks, businesses, the Church, foreign influences, is interesting.”
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