Attorney General does not discard request for Wesolowski extradition

SD. The Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominquez Brito, did not discard the possibility that the former papal Nuncio Jozef Wesolowski, who police accused of sexually abusing young boys and who was stripped of his diplomatic immunity by the Vatican, might be requested in extradition.

Nevertheless, he said that he did not want to speculate until he receives a report on the legal situation of the former Dean of the Dominican diplomatic corps.

"We are going to request the reports according to the corresponding channels, with the aim of getting reports on the real status of this person, who as you know has been charged and as you know he has benefited from a jurisdiction that is not the Dominican Republic."

Yesterday Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said that Wesolowski no longer works as a diplomat for the Holy See and no longer has diplomatic immunity, and that therefore "he can be subject to judicial processes of courts that might have jurisdiction over him."

The Vatican withdrew Wesolowski as its ambassador last August 2013 after rumors that he sexually abused minors in the Dominican Republic became public. Some weeks ago, a tribunal in the Vatican found him guilty under canon law and it ordered him to return to the state of layman. A penal process has been opened against him in the Vatican.