He arrived on foot at about 8 o’clock in the premises of the county brigade family protection. Entangled in a scandal for weeks, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin arrived Wednesday morning in a Lyon police station to be heard in the course of two surveys for non-denunciation of pedophile acts alleged against the priests of his diocese
. The investigating nearing completion
He had to answer questions from police officers under the open hearing, that is to say without placement in custody, according to sources close to the dossier. With this hearing, which follows several months of scandal and a challenge to the Church’s attitude of France towards pedophilia cases, the investigations undertaken in the framework of two investigations ordered by the prosecutor of Lyons there are three months coming to an end.
it will then return to the prosecutor, in the coming weeks, to carry it out or not classifying the case, the referring directly to a court or entering a magistrate. The Primate of the Gauls, blamed for acts of failing to report sexual abuse of minors and endangering the lives of others should especially be explained on the case of Father Bernard Preynat, indicted end of January to sexual assaults on young scouts between 1986 and 1991, and remained at his post, in a parish where he was in contact with children until the end of August 2015. But this case that seeks the one of the most influential personalities of the Church in France is complex, the facts are old and Cardinal Barbarin, ensuring he had “never covered any act of pedophilia” has happened in the diocese of Lyon that in 2002, 11 years after the last is retained by the justice against the “father Bernard.”
management errors
Since when the archbishop was he aware? What was he told and by whom? Why let the priest to exercise in a parish in contact with children until August 2015? Without reporting the case to court? Public responses diocese varied: first evoking a first contact with a victim in 2014, Cardinal then said to have heard of the case, through a third party, from 2007-2008. Date which may be important, the requirement of non-reporting of three years.
At a meeting of the Lyon clergy, April 25, the cardinal acknowledged “errors management and the appointment of some priests. ” He also apologized to victims. The pope finally brought him unequivocal support. But for the victims grouped in the association released the Word, the Archbishop has indeed wanted to cover the actions of Bernard Preynat continue by “code of silence” that prevailed since the 70 At least six of them have complained. A second preliminary investigation to “non-reporting” was also ordered after that of a senior official of the Interior Ministry claiming to have been sexually abused, 16 and 19, from another Lyon priest in the 1990s.
facts proscribed?
This is the diocese in October, which revealed the ongoing investigation into the Preynat father. But languages are untied and other cases which resurfaced since the scandal splashed the whole Church. The last meeting of bishops in mid-March to Lourdes, was largely devoted to pedophilia issues and a whole arsenal of measures announced since.
Other members of the diocese of Lyon referred complaints were heard in this matter and at least two searches took place at the palace. Cardinal Barbarin had been heard as a witness in other cases, but this is the first time he meets with failure to report charges.
On Friday, the Court of Appeal of Lyon must rule on prescription charges against the father Preynat. If the prescribed declared, Cardinal Barbarin defense considers that it would be possible to continue the cardinal, but legal opinions differ. One French bishop to date was sentenced for failing to report, Bishop Pican in 2001, three-month suspended sentence.
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