Interior Minister Angelino
Alfano has said that the rules of international law will apply
in the case of three Vatican officials put on trial for
allegedly leaking confidential papal documents to two
journalists who are also being tried in the Vatican.
"We have the Italian penal code and the Vatican has its
own judicial system," Alfano said in response to questions from
journalists on the Vatileaks trial. "In these circumstances the
rules of international law will apply."
"If found guilty, we will give more thought to the
matter," he added. "But we're not in that phase yet."
Five people are currently on trial in the Vatican for
allegedly leaking confidential documents. The trial of
Immacolata Chaouqui, a public relations expert, investigative
journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, Monsignor
Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda and his former assistant Nicola Maio
opened last Monday.
Chaouqui, Balda and Maio are charged with leaking the
confidential material and Nuzzi and Fittipaldi with using it in
two recently published books - one titled Avarice, the other
Merchants in the Temple - documenting Vatican waste and
mismanagement and lavish spending by clergymen.
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