Overview
- Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli dispatched ministry technicians to assess the intervention in the chapel and decide next steps.
- The Vicariate of Rome opened an internal inquiry into how the face on the angel was modified.
- Volunteer sacristan and decorator Bruno Valentinetti, whose name appears in a Latin inscription, carried out the work and denies intentionally depicting the prime minister.
- Parish priest Monsignor Daniele Micheletti acknowledges the likeness but defends the restoration as permissible.
- Opposition Democrats labeled the case unacceptable and urged action under the Cultural Heritage Code, as crowds visited the basilica and Meloni quipped that she does not look like an angel.