Photo: left - Swiss Guard Cedric Tornay. middle - Gladys Meza wife. right - Commanding Officer Alois Estermann. While at the Vatican, Cardinal Rigali became chaplain for the Swiss Guards, the ex-military guys, young and unmarried, who provide security there. A murder-suicide (May 4,1998) involving the Swiss Guard that rocked the Vatican in a mystery worthy of a Dan Brown thriller is back in the spotlight after Pope Benedict XVI was asked to intervene and reopen the case. Swiss Guard Cedric Tornay, 23, shot dead the famous units commanding officer Alois Estermann, 43, and his wife Gladys Meza before turning the gun on himself - allegedly in a fit of rage after being overlooked for promotion. Within hours of the triple deaths in 1998 - the first violent deaths on Vatican soil in decades - officials closed the case saying it was a simple case of Corporal Tornay having gone mad after being given medication for a brain tumour. …Mr Brossellett added that he had found inconsistencies in the official autopsy report provided by the Vatican after they had a second one carried out in Lausanne when the body was returned to his native Switzerland. …He said:Our autopsy showed that Cedric Tornay was turned at the time of the shot but the Vatican one said he was on his knees and facing forward. So their reconstruction is wrong. Mr Brossellett also said that they had discovered the night of the murders a friend of Estermanns had called his apartment and had heard bangs and shouting and that he thought four people were in the house at the time of the killings. Mrs Baudat said:As far as I am concerned the original investigation is full of lies and contradictions and was carried out at such a speed so as to hide the real truth. It was a murder carried out to get Estermann out of the way and then helpfully blame it on a dead madman.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:15:43 +0000
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