The Church began to tackle the teaspoon in the ocean represented by the victims of child crime since the 1950s. The National Authority for Recognition and Reparation (Inirr), which began operating at the beginning of gave an update on its activities, this Wednesday evening, before the French bishops gathered in general assembly in Lourdes, then in a press conference.
The opportunity, already, to draw some trends.
Marie Derain de Vaucresson, the president, announces that “526 people contacted the Inirr between January 17 and April 5”.
Among them, “54 situations were supported”.
The jurist admits: “It is not satisfactory, I told the bishops.
This demonstrates the difficulty in structuring and recruiting employees and situation referents.
You can't just work with volunteers.
We must quickly have 5 salaried referents, against 1 currently.
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What compensation for the victims?
The referents are the people who accompany the victims, after making contact and the computer information of the file, in order to ensure traceability of the requests and the exchanges.
Support is finalized “after two or three meetings on average”.
The point of compensation, essential to the conclusion of most cases, has still not been decided.
“We are working on this issue with the Corref (Conference of Religious of France).
(…) She plans to make a ladder, with levels, a floor and a ceiling.
Our option is, in the same way, to be able to arrive at an assessment of the seriousness and the consequences in order to assess a level of financial reparation which will only be a contribution.
Obviously, we never do enough for the victims.
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The Selam fund, responsible for collecting the money needed for this component, is topped up with more than 20 million euros, as it made official on January 26.
Its president, Gilles Vermot-Desroches, announced the release of “the first two envelopes: one of 5 million for repairs and the other of 1 million for prevention”.
A majority of men
The work launched since the beginning of the year allows the Inirr to compare the files received with the work of the Sauvé commission, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase).
She estimated that the rate of male victims was nearly 80%.
Of the files received, specifies Marie Derain de Vaucresson, "68% of the requests concern men": "The proportion of women is higher than in the Ciase report, which perhaps shows their greater ease in making this Steps.
We have a little rejuvenation (…), with a majority of people aged 56 to 70.
People under 30 have also come to us in recent weeks, most often victims of secular aggressors in the case of youth movements.
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Another piece of data sheds harsh light on the sordid acts perpetrated: “In 70% of cases, sexual violence was experienced between the ages of 11 and 15.
And for almost a quarter of the victims, between 6 and 10 years old.
Over time, we have 15% of situations where the violence was experienced over extremely long periods, from 3 to 20 years.
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The requests made to the Church range from simple recognition to financial reparation, including a meeting with a bishop or another actor of the Church.
“A quarter of the people who approach us do not ask for financial compensation, explains the president of Inirr.
But it is necessary to qualify, because this data relates to the entry in the step.
It can evolve in one direction or the other.
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