Thousands of documents leaked to journalist “to shock corrupt world”
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Paolo Gabriele, the butler to Pope Benedict XVI who has been under arrest since May, allegedly had help from a Vatican computer technician, according to a Vatican judge who is investigating the case. The judge also says, according to a Vatican spokesperson, that Gabriele stole thousands of documents and leaked them to an Italian journalist in order to “shock” what he saw as a corrupt world of Catholic Church officials. Gabriele is being charged with aggravated theft and the technician, who is not considered to have conspired with the butler, is not under arrest but will face lesser charges.
Links to other sites: Vatican statement, in Italian, CNN, Guardian
