France: the Catholic Church "must not turn the page" on the file of pedocrime
The Sauvé report estimates that approximately 330,000 minors have been victims, in France and since the 1950s, of priests, deacons, religious.
AFP - PETER MUHLY
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This Saturday, October 8, several associations of victims of child crime in the Church met for the first time in Paris.
This meeting was held a year after the revelation by an independent commission, chaired by senior civil servant Jean-Marc Sauvé, of the extent of child crime for several decades within the Church.
Some associations regret the slowness of compensation and this meeting therefore aimed to facilitate communication between the associations to make them more audible in the face of the Church and the compensation commissions.
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The cross of Jesus shines on the Scottish shirt, Sébastien is the spokesperson for the collective Libère ta parole, he himself was abused by a priest.
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It destroyed me, I am coming out of two months of hospitalization in psychiatry because I broke down,
he confides.
The legal slowness, precisely, also made me crack.
I am moved to meet in real life the people I had in video, it gives me hope, and I tell myself that there will be other meetings like this.
Jean-Marc Sauvé sent us a small mission order, in fact, it is to continue to work together, until we obtain all the reparations and recognitions, the duty of memory etc., that we can finally close the chapter.
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For Olivier Savignac, from the collective Parler et revivre, the repair procedures are however too slow: “
Today these bodies of recognition and reparation must fully associate the collectives and the associations
.
According to him, the Church does not do this enough.
According to figures from the Sauvé report, approximately 330,000 minors have been victims, in France and since the 1950s, of priests, deacons, religious...
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