One of the highest dignitaries of the French Church and five other people are accused of non-condemnation of crimes pà © thophile. Those committed by Father Bernard Preynat on 70 young Scouts, mainly …
One of the highest dignitaries of the French Church and five other people are accused of non-denunciation of pedophile crimes. Those committed by Father Bernard Preynat on 70 young Scouts, mainly in the years 1970-1980. If the decision is eagerly awaited, the victims are hardly under any illusions.
Did Cardinal Barbarin know and try to hide the truth? According to the victims, the primate of Gaul would have been alerted to the pedophile behavior of one of the priests of his diocese well before 2015, when he will remove Father Preynat from these functions, more than 30 years after the fact.
Cardinal Barbarin is suspected of having wanted to avoid a media scandal broke out by preferring to find a compromise within the Church without alerting justice. In France, however, every citizen who has knowledge of a crime has the duty to inform the justice.
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But at his trial in January, Cardinal Barbarin, 68, says he has always done everything to convince the victims who came to see him to file a complaint. Having become adults, they had all the latitude to do it autonomously according to the primate.
After four days of hearings, the prosecutor did not require any sentence against Cardinal Barbarin, considering that the facts were prescribed when they were reported to her. For its part, the court can punish up to three years in prison and 45,000 euros fine an individual for non-reporting of pedophile crime.
