An 87-year-old priest, suspected of raping an 8-year-old girl in 1998, was indicted in Clermont-Ferrand and placed under judicial supervision, the city's prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
Affected by a complaint in 2018 from his alleged victim, he was referred Friday after his placement in police custody, intervened the day before, for a presentation to the investigating judge, he added to the Agence France-Presse, confirming information from La Montagne .
According to the regional daily, the facts, which the suspect would have denied "en bloc", would have taken place at his home in Saint-Saturnin (Puy-de-Dôme) in the absence of the grandmother of the victim, with whom the suspect would have had a romantic relationship at the time.
The open judicial information "aims in particular to establish whether there are other victims in this case", according to the same source. “We first think of the victim of these acts. We express the sadness and shame of the diocesan Church, ”reacted the Archbishop of Clermont-Ferrand, Mgr François Kalist, in a press release. “The accused priest benefits from the presumption of innocence. As a precautionary measure, it is subject to any ministry, "he said.
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