Spanish Monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda (2nd R), Italian laywoman Francesca Chaouqui (3rd R) and journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi (5th R) and Emiliano Fittipaldi (4th R) attend a trial at the Vatican November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Five people, including two Italian reporters, went on trial in the Vatican on Tuesday, to outrage from rights groups, on charges arising from publication of books in which the Holy See was portrayed as mired in mismanagement and corruption.
At the first session, dominated by procedural issues and dubbed "Kafkaesque" by one of the defendants, journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi said they had done nothing wrong and had simply fulfilled their professional duty.
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