A new Lyon priest suspected of sexual assault – Le Figaro

The suspected priest who officiate in the second district of Lyon, was the subject of an investigation in 2006. Ranked as no action at the time, it was “reactivated” there a few days.

the diocese of Lyon is again in the viewfinder of justice. While the diocese and its bishop, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, are in turmoil since revelations of alleged acts of pedophilia, a new priest suspected of sexual assault. An informed source confirmed Thursday night that an open investigation into the priest several years ago had been “reactivated” in the last few days.

The suspected priest officiate in the second district of city ​​according M6info, adding that “new evidence recently brought to the attention of justice” led the prosecutor to open an investigation in 2006 – no further action a few months later. According to the source close to the file, assaults facts in question concern “a girl”, whose age was not specified. The survey adds to the judicial investigation against Father Bernard Preynat, indicted late January for sexual assault offenses allegedly committed between 1986 and 1991 young Scouts that framed in the Lyon suburbs.

Two other preliminary investigations are opened, this time targeting the Cardinal Philippe Barbarin among other religious leaders, on charges of “non-reporting” of sexual assault. In this context, the police raided Wednesday, the local bishop of Lyon. Originally these investigations, complaints from victims who accuse Cardinal Barbarin of not informing Justice alleged actions of Father Bernard Preynat and have left this religious stationed until 2015. Another victim also accuses Bishop to have condoned the abuse of another priest Lyon which he says have suffered in the 1990s.

a growing list

This reinvestigation on a third priest expands the list of business issues for the diocese who also indented a priest practicing in Lyon after being convicted of sexual assault in 2007. in light of these case it seems especially that languages ​​are beginning to loosen, as desired by the association of alleged victims of father Preynat consisting late 2015 under the name “the Word liberated.”

Since it work to “do recognize the trauma that these children have suffered and they still bear the cracks, but also to shed light on the responsibility of the Lyon archdiocese who perhaps has not taken steps to match the grave nature, “according to its website.

Lourdes during the spring meeting of bishops of France, Cardinal Barbarin had ruled out resigning in the face of political pressures, ensuring they have” never, never, never “covered any act of pedophilia. Victim of a “media lynching” by his supporters, he then asked “forgiveness personally” to victims during a Mass of Holy Week. The record is very sensitive within the Catholic hierarchy that displays the time for its support to the archbishop of Lyon, like its counterpart in Paris Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois, who said in the press at of Easter, that there was “no reason he resigned.”