Reuters, 24/11 16:53 CET
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY
(Reuters) – Five people, including two Italian reporters, went on trial
in the Vatican on Tuesday, to outrage from rights groups, on charges
arising from publication of books in which the Holy See was portrayed as
mired in mismanagement and corruption.
At the first session, dominated by procedural issues and
dubbed “Kafkaesque” by one of the defendants, journalists Gianluigi
Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi said they had done nothing wrong and had
simply fulfilled their professional duty.
“I am incredulous in finding myself here as a defendant
in a country that is not mine,” Fittipaldi told the court, adding that
publishing news was protected by the Italian constitution as well as
European conventions and universal declarations on human rights.
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Source: Euronews
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