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Ex-Priest Indicted for Rapes and Sexual Assaults on Child, Placed Under Judicial Supervision

A judge has opened a formal judicial inquiry that will be led by an investigating magistrate and is expected to last several months.

L’homme «conteste les faits qui lui sont reprochés» et qui auraient été infligés, entre 2000 et 2003, à une fille née en 1992, a précisé à l’AFP le procureur de Toulon Raphaël Balland.
L'ancien prêtre "conteste les faits qui lui sont reprochés".

Overview

  • A former priest from La Farlède has been mise en examen on suspicion of rapes and sexual assaults against a girl born in 1992 for alleged incidents between 2000 and 2003.
  • The man denies the allegations, and he was placed under contrôle judiciaire rather than held in pretrial detention despite the prosecution seeking detention.
  • Police held the suspect in a garde à vue in Angers before he was brought to the tribunal judiciaire de Toulon for the opening of the judicial investigation.
  • Investigations are now under the authority of an investigating magistrate and are expected to continue for several months as evidence and witness accounts are gathered.
  • The case forms part of a wider wave of clerical abuse claims in France, with nearly 1,800 people having contacted the national Inirr body that was set up in 2021 to recognise and compensate victims.