The general assembly of bishops opens Tuesday in Lourdes. Church leaders should vote, among other things, on the principle and modalities of a "financial reward allowance" for victims of sexual abuse by clergy. The word of the victims is still difficult. Marie-Claire, from the Faith and Resilience collective, has been silent for 50 years. She speaks on Europe 1, Tuesday.

TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1

Some 120 Catholic bishops from France are meeting from Tuesday, in plenary session in Lourdes, to talk in particular about ecology, but especially to vote on Saturday the principle and modalities of a "financial recognition allowance" for victims of pedophilia . Thursday Jean-Marc Sauvé, president of the independent commission on pedophilia in the Church will address the bishops of France to present his work and the first testimonies received.

They are nearly 2,000 to have dared to confide on the calvary lived. Marie-Claire, 62, is part of the collective Faith and Resilience. Victim of abuse, she was silent for 50 years. "If you do not speak, do not believe yourself," she says at the microphone of Europe 1. "He knew the power he had, so he used it."

"As long as it is not settled, I will never set foot in a church"

"My parents were very religious and they had a huge admiration for this priest," recalls Marie-Claire. "So I was stuck." Today, Marie-Claire is angry with the institution. "God said that if a child is touched, the whole church is touched, how do you read something like that and close your eyes to aggression? Do not move when there is something, do as if we did not hear? ", she asks with emotion. "As long as it is not settled, I will never set foot in a church."