The trial over the London property scandal has opened a new crack in the Vatican judicial system: a direct confrontation between the Promoter of Justice and the Court of Appeal that threatens to further exacerbate doubts about the transparency of the procedure.
According to Il Messaggero, in the Vatican, an unprecedented clash is shaping up between the prosecuting body and the appeal judges reviewing the Becciu case. The origin of the conflict lies in the order issued on March 17, which declared the relative nullity of the first-instance trial and required the process to be redone.
The Court not only ordered the trial to be repeated but also the full deposit of all documents from the investigative phase before April 30. However, this requirement may not be met.
The element that has ignited the tension is the Promoter of Justice’s decision to “reserve the right to challenge” the Court’s order. In practice, this opens the door to a blockade scenario: the Promoter could fail to present all the required documentation, or limit himself to delivering only a part, as already happened during the first phase of the process.
This precedent is particularly significant. At that time, the then Promoter, Alessandro Diddi, refused to deliver the entirety of the relevant conversations, relying on investigative secrecy, even when the court itself requested it.
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