Monsignor Michel Apepetit, in an interview at the “Parisian” Tuesday, says “Victim of a cabal”.
Le Monde with AFP
His resignation was accepted early December by the Pope after he was accused in the press for maintaining an intimate relationship with a woman. In an interview in Parisian Posted on Tuesday, December 14, M Gr Michel Apepetit, the archbishop of Paris resigned, denies any connection and says” victim d ‘a cabal “.
At the end of November, a weekly article stated that Michel Apepetit had in 2012, while it was not yet archbishop, an intimate relationship and consented to a woman, what the man of Church denies categorically. An email sent by mistake by the prelate left little doubt, according to the weekly, on the relationship maintained. “It was a person who, as it often happens when we are a priest or doctor, attaches because she suffers from loneliness. She wrote me every day. I answered a mail and my secretary could Read it, since we shared the same mailbox “, defends my Gr Michel Apepetit in the Parisian. “There was no liaison. Once this person had a back pain. I made him a massage to relieve it. I remind you that I am a doctor,” he says.
On December 8, Paris Match published pictures of him with a Belgian theologian, Laetitia Calmyn. “It has nothing to do with a relationship of love or sexual relationship. It’s a friendship (…). I find it’s shirting it,” says Archbishop. He tells you have lunch with her in a small bistro before walking in her company in Forest de Meudon. “If you can not eat with a friend without a paparazzi you photograph, in which the world is living?” According to him, his lawyer, M e Jean Reinhart, is currently writing a complaint for defamation . “I can not accept that my silence is interpreted as an admission of guilt,” he continues.
“Reputation”
After accepting Michel’s resignation on December 2nd, the Pope said that the Archbishop could no longer govern because his “reputation was reached”, evoking a “failure” at the sixth command (“you do not commit adultery “),” not total but small caresses and massages he was doing at his secretary “. “I think he has a little mixed the elements of history. My poor secretary has nothing to do with all this. I know her husband and family. I baptized his grandchildren”, details -T he.
In questioning during his interview in order to know if he felt like a victim of a cabal, M Gr Apepetit answer “yes”. “I was appointed to people, networks that wanted me and who acted. But I have no proof. I prayed to God not to put bitterness in my heart and prayed For those who want me wrong. “