The Criminal Court of Lyon will make its decision on March 7 in the lawsuit against Cardinal Barbarin and five former members of the diocese of Lyon, announced Thursday the President Brigitte Vernay.
The prosecution does not require a conviction. The prosecution did not require a conviction, arguing the prescription of the facts and the absence of obstruction of the justice of Philippe Barbarin and his co-accused. The latter appeared since Monday for non-denunciation of sexual assaults committed by a priest of the diocese on young Scouts before 1991.