Defense seeks recusal of prosecutor in ‘trial of the century’ appeal
September 23, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Lawyers for defendants who are appealing their convictions in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” have asked for the recusal of the top Vatican prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, saying that his involvement in coaching a key witness demonstrated an improper personal interest in the outcome of the case.
The defense pointed to scores of email and text messages exchanged by Diddi and two women, Francesca Chaouqui and Genevieve Ciferri, who encouraged Msgr. Alberto Perlasca to alter his testimony and become a crucial witness against his former superior, Cardinal Angelo Becciu. The defense motion said that the messages “demonstrate a disturbing activity of evidence tampering.”
The Vatican tribunal accepted the defense motion, and gave Diddi three days to respond.
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