Diddi weeps before the Court of Cassation, but the proceedings are not his show

Vatican City – Order No. 24/25 of the Court of Cassation of the Vatican City State arises from the motion for recusal filed by several parties before the Court of Appeal against the Promoter of Justice Alessandro Diddi. As Silere non possum has documented—by publishing in full the conversations between the convicted Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui and Genoveffa Ciferri, as well as the exchanges between Ciferri and Diddi himself—his continued participation in the proceedings was wholly incompatible with the serene and impartial exercise of prosecutorial functions: in a trial in which such relationships and interlocutions are relevant, Diddi cannot continue to act as Promoter of Justice.
That the Roman lawyer was fully aware of the seriousness of those conversations is confirmed by a specific fact: the defence teams were effectively prevented from accessing those records. In coordination with Giuseppe Pignatone, now involved in Italian criminal proceedings in which …