VATICAN CITY
BBC News
A computer technician has gone on trial in the Vatican City charged with aiding and abetting the Pope’s former butler in stealing papal documents.
Claudio Sciarpelletti is accused of helping Paolo Gabriele leak the confidential documents while working in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
Gabriele was given an 18-month prison sentence by the same court last month.
He admitted passing documents to a journalist, but said he did it out of love for the church and the Pope.
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