"Today was the deadline for the full filing of the investigative documents ordered by the Court of Appeal to the Office of the Promoter. But this has not happened." This is what lawyers Fabio Viglione and Maria Concetta Marzo, defenders of Cardinal Angelo Becciu , have announced, expressing "dismay at the decision taken by the Office of the Promoter of Justice, which, in our opinion, has not complied with the order of the Court of Appeal of the Vatican City State of March 17, 2026."
"The Court," Viglione and Marzo emphasize, "specifically required the complete filing of all documents and records from the preliminary investigation, with no possibility of selection by the Office of the Promoter of Justice, reiterating a key principle: nothing can be examined by the Judge unless it has first been made available to the parties."
"Despite this," Becciu's lawyers continue, "the Office of the Promoter decided to maintain the redaction and not file any documents, citing concerns of irrelevance and irrelevance. This is precisely the selective power that the Court ruled out: the prosecution cannot unilaterally decide which documents the defense is entitled to see. The right to a fair hearing, the equality of the parties, and the adversarial process require full knowledge of the documents."
"These are principles enshrined in the Code of Criminal Procedure," Viglione and Marzo conclude, "to which the Court of Appeal has referred. Any partial filing violates the order's intent and reiterates the flaw already censured by the Court, resulting in the nullity of the summons to trial."
(Unioneonline)
