The president of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church estimated on Wednesday at least "3,000" the number of victims in France since 1950.
Over this period, the number of perpetrators of sexual assault in the Church cannot be "less than 1,500", added during a videoconference Jean-Marc Sauvé, stressing that these provisional figures came from '' a first report of investigations carried out by its Commission into the archives of dioceses and religious congregations.