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Imprisonment in the Vatileaks process required

Since mid-November, will be negotiated in the Vatican against the five accused. Now, the state’s lawyers have kept to their pleadings. Accordingly, the former Vatican employees behind bars at least.

In the process to the publication of confidential documents to a potential waste of money in the Vatican the Vatican has requested of charges for four of the five defendants prison terms. The PR expert Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui (article image) to years therefore, for the three and nine months in prison. For a Spanish priest Lucio Vallejo Balda for three years and a month have been requested for his employee Nicola Maio a year and nine months.

The investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi is to receive according to the will of the prosecutors for aiding and abetting the dissemination of the documents a year on probation. In Nuzzis colleagues Emiliano Fittipaldi, who was prosecuted for the same charge, pleads to the indictment on acquittal for lack of Evidence.

The journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi (l) and Gianluigi Nuzzi

The two journalists Nuzzi and Fittipaldi were published in the November books, in which they
the Vatican, among other things, an excessive waste of money accuse. They are based on documents from the Curia, which should be of the other three defendants leaked.

Whether the defendant must in case of a possible conviction, in fact, in custody, is open. Immediately is likely to be only the spiritual Vallejo Balda, of the owns in addition to his Spanish nationality, as the only a Vatican passport affected.

This Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Vatican, the defender, the press service of keeping their pleadings. With the Judging process, observers expect for Thursday.

rb/stu (dpa, kna)