Extradition of Joannes Rivoire: victims of pedophilia demonstrate in Lyon

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Despite the biting cold, some noses venture to the window of the Saint-François d'Assises nursing home, attracted by the echo of the megaphone that rises between the three walls at the end of rue Raymond, on the hill of the Croix- Rousse, in Lyons.

In front of the glass facade covered with a message pointing to the presence within its walls of Joannes Rivoire, 91, a dozen activists came to recall Monday noon the accusations against this former priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. across the Atlantic.

A missionary in the far north for three decades, he was accused there of several rapes and sexual assaults on Inuit children, as mentioned by the Canadian arrest warrant revived last February following a new complaint.

While France finally refused his extradition in October despite the arrival of a delegation of relatives of victims in September in Lyon, Arnaud Gallais, president of the recent movement Be Brave France, now appeals to Emmanuel Macron.

All legal remedies being exhausted on the Canadian side,

he says.

mentions a sign held up by the activists.

Some were victims of sexual abuse, like Luc Gemet, raped by Father Ribes in the Loire.

he says, echoing the Ciase report, which estimated the number of victims in the Church at 330,000 in half a century.

Stencils and arrows on the sidewalk

This Monday, stencils were painted on the ground from the Croix Rousse metro station to indicate the location of the priest's Ephad, who returned to his native region a few months ago after living in the south of France. and in Strasbourg, since his return in 1993 at the time of the first complaints.

, chants Arnaud Gallais on the megaphone.

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A few taken aback passers-by stopped to read the messages painted on the floor and pasted on the walls.

BeBrave

Heard as a victim following the Sauvé commission, Arnaud Gallais assumes the method.

," he explains.

And to insist on the consequences of

citing the example of Marius Tungilik, the first to file a complaint in 1993, who ended up committing suicide in 2012. To the presumption of innocence, he answers

.

he says.

France justified its refusal by the delay between the statute of limitations and its policy of non-extradition of its nationals.

,” retorts Arnaud Gallais.

Like his Belgian counterpart Eric Dejaeger, who had finally been extradited and sentenced in the same type of case.

The Rivoire file is far from being closed in Canada, which is working on issuing an Interpol red notice.