The pope's former butler is accused of stealing thousands of private papal documents. In the "Vatileaks" trial that has captured the world, Paolo Gabriele tells the court why he did it. NBC's Michelle Kosinki reports. By NBC News wire servicesMembers of the Vatican police force said Wednesday that some of the documents found at the home of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler were signed by the pope with a note that they should be destroyed. Some of the papers were about the pontiff's "private life," an officer said.
The police were testifying in the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the pope's once-trusted butler who faces four years in prison if convicted of aggravated theft for stealing papal documents and leaking them to a journalist in the so-called "Vatileaks" affair.
Officers also said that the theft of encrypted Vatican documents had compromised some Vatican operations, and that Gabriele had printed instructions on how to hide computer files and use cellphones secretly.
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