The day after the publication of the overwhelming Sauvé report on the extent of child crime within the Church, Emmanuel Macron spoke on the subject.
The President of the Republic greeted Wednesday "the spirit of responsibility" of the Church of France which "decided to look this subject in the face as had done other Churches across Europe in particular".
According to the commission, some 330,000 minors have suffered assaults in Church institutions since 1950.
“I hope that this work can continue in a lucid and peaceful manner.
Our society needs it.
There is a need for truth and reparation, ”the president added on Wednesday to reporters at the end of a European summit at Brdo Castle, Slovenia.
"A society is also judged by its capacity to denounce them"
“Behind the numbers, there are women and men whose lives have been shaken up, sometimes shattered.
It is first of all for them that I have a thought ”, he added after having congratulated the work carried out by the independent Commission on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (Ciase) led by Jean-Marc Sauvé .
Beyond this report, "we must do" this "duty of truth in all respects" to "protect" children "from psychological and sexual violence, which is intolerable".
“A society is also judged by its capacity to denounce them, to repair lives, but even more so to prevent them.
It is quite a work that we have launched ”, specified the Head of State.
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