“Italy: Catholic priest Gratien Alabi charged with murder of missing mother Guerrina Piscaglia” & related articles

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April 24, 2015 12:19 BST

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Holy SeeFather Gratien Alabi was being held by detectives in Rome before being transferred to prison in Arezzo(Reuters)

Italian police have charged a catholic priest with the murder of a Tuscan housewife who went missing last year.

Father Gratien Alabi was held in Rome by detectives investigating the disappearance of Guerrina Piscaglia, 50, who vanished from the village of Cà Raffaello, near Arezzo on 1 May 2014.

The married mother-of-one left her house for a walk on International Labour Day, a public holiday in Italy, never to return.

The 45-year-old clergyman was already a suspect in the case although he was previously facing charges of aiding and abetting a kidnapping or murder and banned from leaving Italy, pending an investigation. He has now been charged with murdering the woman and disposing of the body.

Piscaglia was a parishioner at the local church run by Alabi but detectives have long suspected there was more to their relationship for the two had exchanged a high volume of text messages and phone calls, including on the day of her disappearance, Italian media reported.

During the investigation it emerged the priest had photos of nuns in lewd poses on his computer, which he claimed were sent to him by the religious women with whom he entertained a friendly online correspondence.

Alabi has been transferred from Rome to a jail in Arezzo, where he is to be questioned by prosecutors. He is the only suspect in the case.

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Italy: priest arrested for murder 

Catholic World News – April 24, 2015

Father Gratien Alabi, a Congolese priest who ministers in Arezzo, Italy, has been arrested on charges of murdering and concealing the corpse of Guerrina Piscaglia in May 2014.

Piscaglia, 50, sent Father Alabi, 45, some 4,000 text messages in the year before her disappearance, according to an Italian newspaper report.

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Italian media sensationalize priests’ scandals

Catholic World News

 April 09, 2015

Italian media outlets are carrying sensational stories about two allegations against Catholic priests: one who has been accused of soliciting homosexual partners, another who has been accused of murder.

A priest of the Taranto archdiocese reportedly confessed to pursuing homosexual relationships over the internet, after a local man brought his accusations to the mass media, charging that the Church had failed to respond to his early reports. Archbishop Filippo Santoro of Taranto said that his office took some time to establish the veracity of the charges, but then removed the accused priest from ministry.

Meanwhile Father Gratien Alabi, a priest from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a suspect in the disappearance of a woman from her home in Tuscany. The discovery of a woman’s bones buried at an old chapel has revived interest in the case.

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Another Vatican Scandal

Two priests in the press for Gay orgies and murder

This scandal involving will put The Vatican in the face of the public once again.

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A 32 year old man has reportedly made an official statement in the media, claiming that he met an Italian catholic priest(name withheld) through Facebook, and formed a close friendship with the priest, who then confessed his homosexuality to him.

In his statement, according to reports from an Italian newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno, the man included a record of his conversations with the priest, and in these recorded online interactions, the priest admitted to sexual relationships with other religious figures as well as members of the Vatican’s elite Swiss Guard. The priest also caught on tape saying he uses the internet to find new partners and engage in sexual encounters online.

The second Priestly scandal is that of Father Gratien Alabi, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is being investigated for murdering Guerrina Piscaglia, 50, who disappeared suddenly from nearby Arezzo in Tuscany last year, The Times reported.

Investigators say they discovered female bones under the flagstones of an ancient mountain chapel. They say they are suspecting that the bones exhumed, match that of Guerrina’s

Evidence also points out, that Father Alabi has had affair with the woman, who gave birth to a child for him.

Father Alabi has denied all claims, protesting his innocence.

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Italy: Priest in Missing Housewife Probe had Lewd Photos of Nuns on

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November 21, 2014 13:00 GMT

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Lewd Nuns Photos on Computer of Priest in Missing Housewife ProbeNuns look at Saint Peter’s Basilica on Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican.(Reuters)

Italian police said they found photos depicting several nuns in lewd poses on the computer of a priest under investigation for the disappearance of a Tuscan housewife.

Father Gratien Alabi, 45, told detectives the half-naked women in the pictures were nuns with whom he entertained friendly relations, Ansa news agency reported.

He said he met the religious women in real life, before starting an online correspondence with them.

The clergyman is a suspect in the disappearance of Guerrina Piscaglia, a 50-year-old woman who vanished from her village of Cà Raffaello, near Arezzo in May.

The married mother-of-one was a parishioner at the church ran by Alabi and another priest.

Police, however, suspect there was more to their relationship and said the two had exchanged a high volume of text messages and phone calls, including on the day of her disappearance, Italian media reported.

Alabi is accused of aiding and abetting a kidnapping or murder and has been banned from leaving Italy, pending the investigation.

The priest has appealed the measure, which prevents him from taking up a new assignment in the town of Saint Cloud, France.

Piscaglia’s husband, Mirko Alessandrini, is also being investigated for making false statements to authorities.

 

One Response to “Italy: Catholic priest Gratien Alabi charged with murder of missing mother Guerrina Piscaglia” & related articles

  1. Sylvia says:

    Another awful mess.

    And Father Alabi was just about to take a new assignment in France!

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