The Italian episcopal conference did not want to entrust the investigation into sexual violence to an independent commission of the type of that chaired in France Jean-Marc Sauvé, to the Dam of victims associations.
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There will be no independent commission on pedocrime in the Italian Catholic Church similar to that created by the French Church. The new president of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), Matteo Zuppi, appointed Tuesday by Pope Francis of which he is close, announced, Friday, May 27, the launch of a study on sexual assault of children and people vulnerable within the Catholic institution in the past twenty years.
But this study, which will be published on November 18, will be controlled by the bishops, “with the contribution of independent research institutes” chosen by them. Announced at the end of their annual assembly, this decision was deemed insufficient by collectives of victims, who demand an in -depth and impartial investigation in one of the last Western countries to have not raised the screed of silence that weighs on this subject .
The data taken into account for this study will come from the dioceses and the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, the Vatican organism to which are supposed to go up the sexual assaults committed by clerics. In other words, they will all be internal to the Church. On the other hand, a national report on prevention activities and on cases of sexual abuse to dioceses will be written in the future each year. “This is our duty in the face of so much suffering,” said Cardinal Matteo Zuppi at a press conference.
These announcements disappointed victims’ associations. Francesco Zanardi, assaulted by a priest in his adolescence and founder of the main association of victims, retained the abuseo, deemed “discriminatory” to study only the sexual violence committed after 2000. “This excludes many cases, including the mine “, he argued.
” not in the back of things “
On May 23, associations and personalities gathered in coordination against abuses in the Catholic Church – Italychurchtoo – had asked the episcopate, in an open letter, “an independent investigation, carried out by credible professionals and Super parts “. They had rejected “in advance any work hypothesis carried out with tools and internal resources to the Church itself [which] would be unbearable, deficient and ultimately useless, if not harmful”.
Questioned by AFP, one of the members of the coordination, journalist Ludovica Eugenio, judged that the report on twenty years of abuse announced “will not solve the problems because it does not go basically things “and asked” radical measures, no facade “.
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