The diocese and the Dijon public prosecutor's office signed an agreement on Wednesday to improve the handling of reports of sexual abuse within the Church.
“Our relations are old, but this agreement formalizes them: who writes to whom, on which email, to whom the prosecutor returns the information when the investigation has progressed sufficiently…”;
explained Olivier Caracotch, public prosecutor, to the
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This protocol is not a first in France, far from it.
Last March, while the bishop and the prosecutor of Versailles also sealed their commitment, AFP indicated that such agreements had been signed in twenty out of 98 dioceses.
These protocols soon to be mandatory?
“Compared to a time when, in the Church, these questions were really, sometimes, left under the carpet, (…) today we try to be in the light, in transparency, in justice”, had declared during the signature Monsignor Luc Crepy, Bishop of Versailles.
The Sauvé report, which revealed in October 2021 the extent of pedocrime in the Catholic Church, had recommended “generalizing” these protocols.
A parliamentary working group which examined the follow-up to the Sauvé report judged, in mid-February, “relevant” to make them “mandatory”.
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