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Witness History: Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

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Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

BBC World Service - Witness History, Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

In 1983, a suspected kidnapping led to scandal

A missing schoolgirl from the Vatican led to a scandal in 1983.

In 1983, the disappearance of a teenage girl who was a citizen of Vatican City led to a scandal.

When Pope John Paul II made a public appeal to the people holding Emanuela Orlandi captive, the world took notice and her case was treated as a suspected kidnapping.

Forty years on, the reason she vanished is still unclear.

Emanuela’s brother, Pietro Orlandi, speaks to Daniel Gordon about his life-long mission to find out what really happened to his sister.

(Photo: A protester holds a photo of Emanuela. Credit: Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images)

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