Advocate General Joel Sollier did not demand a sentence Friday against Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who contests on appeal his conviction to six months in prison suspended for not denouncing the sexual abuse of a priest of the diocese. At the first instance trial last March, the prosecutor's representative had not previously requested a conviction against the prelate.
Barbarin camps on his positions
Thursday, Cardinal Barbarin had told the judge that he did not understand his conviction in this case. "What is the reason for your call?" Asked the president of the court, Eric Seguy, beginning his interrogation on the facts. "It is a right that the French justice gives me, I seize it because I can not quite see in what I am guilty and what are the facts that one reproaches me", answered the archbishop of 69 years, sentenced on March 7 to six months of suspended sentence. He appealed the judgment the next day.