Europe 1 with AFP 9:36 p.m., April 12, 2022

The Recognition and Reparation Commission (CRR) has established a scale of reparations spread over seven levels, ranging from a minimum of 5,000 euros to 60,000 euros, according to a CRR document that AFP obtained.

The CRR stresses that it wanted to offer "a personalized, but nevertheless rationalized repair".

The Recognition and Reparation Commission (CRR), which offers mediation between victims of child crime in Catholic institutes and the latter, has established a scale of reparations spread over seven levels, ranging from a minimum of 5,000 euros to 60,000 euros, according to a document. of the CRR that AFP obtained.

In the document signed by its president Antoine Garapon, the CRR, which began to receive cases and victims in January, details the calculation method used.

She emphasizes that she wanted to offer "a personalized repair, but nevertheless streamlined".

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A scale of violence ranging from 1 to 7

The method "combines an objective description of the violence" - nature of the acts, duration, frequency - "carried out by a member of the CRR", and "an assessment of the consequences" - the degree of impact of sexual violence on personal life, affective, family, social, professional and spiritual -, "carried out by the victim himself".

The crossing of these two evaluations "will place the demand on a scale of 1 to 7".

The repair benchmark ranges from "5,000 euros" - level 1 - to "from 50,000 to 60,000" - level 7 -, according to the document.

It is a "global 'reparation' for attacks on the sexual integrity and dignity of the victim, to the detriment of the search for 'compensation for damage', item by item, as the courts do “, emphasizes the CRR.

Even if this grid, as well as the ceiling, "are not arbitrary but directly inspired by the sums allocated by the French courts in compensation for suffering and attacks on dignity".

The highest ceiling in continental Europe

The ceiling of 60,000 euros is "the highest of the compensation schemes already implemented in continental Europe", according to the CRR, which indicates that it is 50,000 euros in Germany or 18,000 euros in Switzerland.

The CRR was born from the decision, in November, of the Conference of religious men and women of France (Corref, institutes and religious congregations) to set up an independent body allowing the victims of predators of these institutes to seek compensation from them.

The CRR does not deal with the payment of reparation but it offers mediation between the victim and the congregation.

The document, sent to the institutes at the end of March, is intended to be the working reference during exchanges between victims, congregations and the CRR, with the aim of arriving at a "protocol of transactional agreement" between the first two.

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The Inirr did not give any indication of his side on a scale

Another structure exists: the Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation (Inirr), which is aimed at victims of priests or lay people in Church places other than congregations.

It has not, at this stage, given any indication of a possible scale, but last week its president affirmed, on the question of a ceiling and a floor, "to share work with the CRR".

"It would be difficult for victims not to have access to the same types of recognition and reparation, at least in the main principles", said Marie Derain de Vaucresson.