VATICAN CITY
Irish Times
Paddy Agnew in Rome
The potentially embarrassing, so-called Vatileaks 2 trial is scheduled to reconvene in the Vatican on Saturday morning.
This is the Vatican City state trial in which five people stand accused of involvement in a criminal conspiracy which saw them “illegally procuring and successively revealing information and documents concerning the fundamental interests of the Holy See . . .”.
All five people indicted – Spanish monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, his Italian lay assistant Nicola Maio, lay consultant Francesca Chaouqui and journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi – have been charged under section IX of the Vatican’s “crimes against the security of the state” legislation.
This legislation was strengthened by Pope Francis in the wake of the 2012 “Vatileaks 1” case which saw Pope Benedict’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, convicted and eventually pardoned for having stolen confidential documents from the papal apartment.
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