(ANSA) - PARIS, 07 NOV - Eleven bishops and former French bishops are under investigation for sexual violence against minors.
This was announced by the president of the French Bishops' Conference, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, during a press conference in Lourdes.
Among the suspects there is also a cardinal, Monsignor Jean-Pierre Ricard, former bishop of Bordeaux, who acknowledged that he had a "reprehensible" attitude towards a child of 14 years 35 years ago.
And there is the former bishop of Créteil, Michel Santier, already sanctioned in 2021 by the Vatican authorities for "spiritual abuses that led to voyeurism on two men of age" in the 1990s.
High prelates are the subject of a judicial procedure or a canon law procedure within the Church.
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