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Sexual abuse in the Church: the Chancellery demands a stronger commitment from the prosecution

10/31/2021, 8:44:45 PM


On October 8, the Chancellery disseminated a dispatch concerning sexual abuse in the Church for the use of the prosecution.

Precise and urgent.

On October 8, the Chancellery disseminated a dispatch concerning sexual abuse in the Church for the use of the prosecution.

Recalling "

the initiative of the Paris prosecutor's office, which concluded on September 5, 2019 with the Archbishop of Paris a protocol on the transmission of reports to ensure a good flow of information

", and the fact that "

several prosecutors have concluded similar protocols, which fall within the framework of institutional relations ",

she insists on the fact that

" each prosecutor is invited to conclude, if it has not already done so, a protocol of this type and to inform the direction of criminal affairs and pardons ”.

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In an interview with

Le Figaro

, the senior magistrate Rémy Heitz recalled that, since the signing of this protocol, 32 reports had been made, giving rise to thirteen preliminary inquiries, and two judicial inquiries.

Five procedures to the territorially competent prosecution had been transmitted and ten classifications

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