Vatican City: The experiment is scheduled to start on Tuesday in the walls of 10 Defendants of the Vatican City, including a strong cardinal, in case based on a broad probe into the management of healthy assets suspected, including contributions by many Catholics from the bench.
Among the defendants was the Italian Prelatus, Angelo Becciu, a long Vatican diplomat who was appointed by Pope Francis at the cardinal ranking in 2018.
After the scandal net began to break down during a two-year investigation, Francis gave Boot of the Boot last year as Head of the Church Saint-Producing Office Catholic.
Not waiting to find out the verdict finally the Vatican court, Francis has also eliminated the rights of becciu as a cardinal.
Less than three months ago, it is impossible for a cardinal at the dock in the state of the Vatican City, which has its own justice system and even prison.
But Francis has the Vatican Law changed so that the Cardinal and Vatican Based Bishop can be prosecuted and judged by the Holy View criminal court during the pontiff signing it.
Previously, the Cardinal Vatican could only be judged by their colleagues, the trial of three Cardinals.
Becciu, 73, was charged with embezzlement and by pressing a Monsignor to recognize the information he gave to the prosecutor about the handling of the Vatican real estate investment in disaster in London.
Becciu has denied mistakes.
Because of the indictment of almost 500-pages was released in early July, prosecutors had submitted around 30,000 additional documentation pages.
Defense lawyers said they did not have enough time to study the material.
Chief Judge, Giuseppe Pignatone, is a retirees of Roman retired prosecutors who had previously been in his career at the mafia and economic error in Sicily.
To accommodate the largest criminal trial in the history of modern Vatican, the audience is being held in a large hall converted into a courtroom at the Vatican Museum.
The reporter pool that was accredited with the Vatican was permitted to follow the process in the court, but their account was not allowed to be submitted until after hearing the day it ended.
The defendant was suspected of having various roles in actions that effectively cost tens of millions of dollars in funds donated through poor investment, dealing with the shaded money manager, and family favors.
Large large in charges is the London agreement approved by the Vatican State Secretariat.
The initial Euro of 200 million (now almost $ 240 million) sank into funds operated by an Italian businessman.
Half of the money entered real estate business in the Swank Chelsea environment, investment which ultimately cost 350 million euros.
In 2018, the original investment lost money, and the Vatican rushed to find a strategy out.
The Defendant included Cecilia Marogna, a former chief of staff at the Vatican Secretariat of the State, which was employed by Becciu as an external security consultant.
The prosecutor accused him of embezzling 575,000 euros in Vatican funds that becciu had been allowed to be used as a ransom for free Catholic hostages abroad.
Marogna has argued that the accusation he managed was the replacement of the cost of intelligence and other money was compensation.