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I find it interesting that that the BoE's emergency QE program had to kick in at the very moment the Vatican's fraud trial over "a London scam deal" recommenced. Certainly USA markets liked the new QE British news today but this one Italian article was the only one I could find regarding what happened in Italy today, and the details were scant. One wonders if the brink of the implosion of "the entire UK social safety net" was tied to certain revelations regarding the fraud at Exide which is the real subject of the Vatican trial.

Becciu trial, Monsignor Alberto Perlasca is the first witness of the prosecution, but not included in the list (translated in Edge)
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/vaticano/processo_londra_becciu_perlasca_papa_francesco_vaticano_ior-6956205.html
>In the afternoon the hearing was dedicated to the final interrogation of Fabrizio Tirabassi, a former official of the administrative office of the Secretariat of State accused of embezzlement, corruption, extortion, fraud, abuse of office. The interrogation of the Promoter of Justice Diddi in particular focused on the network of relationships with a series of people who acted as advisors in the investment landscape in London of the Secretariat of State. Tirabassi, asked about who had given him the assignment, said he had received it "verbally from Monsignor Perlasca without a formal signature".