The president of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF) Éric de Moulins-Beaufort announced Friday that he had “taken legal action” on Tuesday to ask it to open an investigation into Abbot Pierre, after new revelations of violence sexual.
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“I wrote a report to the Paris prosecutor to ask him to consider opening an investigation into Abbé Pierre,” he told RMC radio, repeating his “horror” after the new revelations this week. targeting the priest, long an iconic figure for his action towards the most deprived.
In a press release the CEF specifies that this report was made “for non-reporting of rape and sexual assault on vulnerable people and minors” so that the prosecution “evaluates the opportunity to open an investigation” to determine how the facts “were could not have been reported to justice for all these years,” adds the press release.
It is also a question of investigating “possible other victims or possible accomplices”, specified Mgr de Moulins-Beaufort, stressing that the prosecution “has means of investigation that a historical commission of inquiry like that that Emmaüs has brought together (…) has not”.
-“Only justice has the means of investigation necessary to allow all the possible truth to be revealed about the silences and non-denunciations from which Abbé Pierre could have benefited,” the press release specifies.
Recalling that he had already requested in September the opening of the Church’s archives on Abbot Pierre, Mgr de Moulins-Beaufort explained that it was necessary to go “to the end of the truth”, after the revelations of the Egae firm mandated by Emmaüs and the broadcast of two television documentaries on Abbé Pierre this week.
In this report published Monday, the priest is targeted by nine new accusations of sexual violence, including rape of a minor and facts concerning members of his family.
“With each cabinet report, we cross a threshold in the discovery of what he was able to do,” and “a sort of system that he seems to have constructed,” lamented Mgr de Moulins-Beaufort.
This is the third report from the firm mandated by Emmaüs to shed light on the actions of Abbé Pierre, whose real name is Henri Grouès. These new revelations bring to 33 the number of testimonies targeting the priest who died in 2007.
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