The prosecutor of Reims (Marne) and the archbishop of the city signed Friday, November 19 a partnership protocol to better fight against sexual abuse and better train religious and lay personnel of the Reims-Ardennes diocese.
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Symbolically signed on the eve of the International Day of the Rights of the Child
", this protocol provides for "
the procedures for informing the Reims prosecutor's office for acts of sexual abuse
", explained the prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette.
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This signature is not linked to any legal news
", he insisted on clarifying.
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But the Archbishop of Reims, also president of the Conference of Bishops of France, Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, indicated on the occasion of the signing that he was preparing "
to give the Reims public prosecutor's office the file on scouts of Europe
”.
In October, the Reims prosecutor's office opened an investigation for sexual assault on minors over 15 years old following the revelation of two former scouts denouncing abuses committed at the end of the 90s by a priest chaplain of the Reims-Ardennes diocese.
"The way is still long"
“
We want to provide practical tools such as who to turn to when you have a report. A lot of people are ignorant or lost when they have information
”noted the prosecutor. "
It is also, and this is a novelty, to organize a training system by the prosecution of religious and lay personnel placed under the authority of the Archbishop
" specified the prosecutor Bourrette.
A first training and awareness meeting is scheduled for the beginning of December.
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The assembly of bishops invites the signing of such conventions
", put forward the archbishop, for whom "
the road is still long
", while "
of the 93 dioceses of metropolitan France, 17 have signed an agreement with judicial authority
”.
In a circular in October, the Keeper of the Seals had requested the generalization of these partnerships, for his part recalled the prosecutor.
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