• An organist at Strasbourg Cathedral has just been sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence for sexual harassment of a minor.

    These events took place outside the framework of the Church.

  • The 58-year-old man was also dismissed from his post.

  • This is not the first time that this seasoned organist has been sentenced ...

Sentenced on October 11, dismissed in the wake.

This is the fate that an organist at Strasbourg Cathedral has just experienced after having been sentenced to six months in prison for sexual harassment on one of his underage students.

These acts had been committed outside the framework of the Church.

This 58-year-old man, one of the three co-holders since 1995 of the great organ of the prestigious Strasbourg cathedral, was notified "by mail" of his dismissal by the archdiocese, according to a spokesperson for the institution. .

He had previously been the subject of a "layoff", he added.

Not his first conviction

The seasoned organist, who also gave concerts and lessons in local institutions, was convicted of sending several messages with a sexual connotation to one of his students when she was 13 to 15 years old.

The court also decided to register him in the file of perpetrators of sexual offenses but left him the possibility of continuing to teach minors, according to 

Les Latest Nouvelles d'Alsace

.

According to a source familiar with the matter, he had already been sentenced in 1999 to fifteen months suspended prison sentence for sexual assault on a minor.

In 2019, a complaint was also filed against him in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) by another woman for allegations of touching suffered when she was a minor, according to the same source, confirming information from

DNA

.

The alleged victim had been received by the Archbishop of Strasbourg, Mgr Luc Ravel.

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