The second hearing in
the so-called Vatileaks 2 trial against five people for
allegedly leaking confidential Holy See documents ended after
less than 15 minutes on Monday after the court decided to grant
five days to the new lawyer representing defendant Francesca
Chaouqui to prepare her defence.
"I don't understand a thing, there's no proof against me,"
Chaouqui said after the hearing.
"In the next five days we must discover why I'm here," the
PR expert added.
Chaouqui's co-defendants, investigative journalists
Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, Monsignor Lucio Angel
Vallejo Balda and his former assistant Nicola Maio, all attended
Monday's hearing.
Chaouqui, Balda and Maio are charged with leaking the
confidential material and Nuzzi and Fittipaldi of using it in
books published recently documenting Vatican waste and
mismanagement and lavish spending by clergymen.
Vallejo Balda and Chaouqui were both members of the
now-defunct COSEA commission set up to advise Pope Francis on
reform of the Holy See's economic-administrative structure.
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