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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nicole Winfield

Parliamentary inquest into 'Vatican Girl' mystery moves forward as pope acknowledges family's pain

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Italy’s Parliament is poised to open a bicameral commission of inquiry into the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee, the third new investigation launched in the four decades since Emanuela Orlandi vanished on the streets of Rome.

The Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved setting up the inquest, and full Senate approval is now expected. The Chamber of Deputies, the Italian Parliament's lower house, gave it’s go ahead earlier.

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