The president of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF) Eric 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.
“I wrote a report to the Paris prosecutor to ask him to consider opening an investigation into Abbé Pierre”he said on 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 failure to report rape and sexual assault on vulnerable people and minors” so that the parkt “appreciates the opportunity to open an investigation” to determine how the facts “may have not been reported to the courts for all these years”adds the press release.
“A sort of system that he seems to have constructed”
It is also about investigating “possible other victims or possible accomplices”specified Mgr de Moulins-Beaufort, emphasizing that the prosecution “has the means of investigation that a historic commission of inquiry like the one brought together by Emmaüs […] doesn't”. “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”specifies the press release.
Recalling that he had already requested in September the opening of the Church 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 cabinet mandated by Emmaüs and the broadcast of two television documentaries on Abbé Pierre this week.
ud83dudd34 EXCLUDED RMC – “I requested the opening of an investigation into Abbé Pierre”, declares Mgr Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Conference of Bishops of France. “I took legal action,” he adds.#ApollineMatin pic.twitter.com/IScI5tUdbm
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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”et “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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