The diocese has reported to justice mail exchanges between the prelate and an adult woman subject to a judicial protection measure, suggesting a possible sexual relation. Neither the woman, who has not filed a complaint, nor Mr. Aupetit have yet been interviewed.
by soren seelow
The former archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit is targeted by a preliminary investigation for acts of sexual assault on a vulnerable person, on Tuesday January 3, the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming BFMTV information . This investigation, opened at the end of November 2022 after a report of the Paris diocese, was entrusted to the delinquency repression brigade to people (BRDP).
According to a source close to the file, the former archbishop, who is 71 years old, is suspected of having had an affair with an adult woman subject to a judicial protection measure. The initial report of the diocese concerns exchanges of emails between the prelate and this woman suggesting a possible sexual relation, but neither the woman, who has not filed a complaint, nor M. Aupetit have yet been interviewed.
It is the vulnerability of women, not the nature of the supposed sexual intercourse, which motivated the opening of the investigation in order to confirm its apparent consent with regard to its mental health.
“My client learns by the press that a report would have been made by the diocese, but the bishopric never questioned it on this point. He is therefore even more surprised to learn that the Paris prosecutor’s office has Open an investigation which he did not know everything. Mr. Aupetit sees any more who could be this woman, never having anyone complaining about the slightest gesture moved from him, “reacted to the world Jean Reinhart, lawyer for the former Archbishop of Paris.
“Commerage”
This is not the first time that Michel Aupetit has to face suspicions about his privacy. In an article published on November 23, 2021, Le Point magazine affirmed that the ecclesiastics had, when it was vicar general of the diocese of Paris, in 2012, “an intimate relationship” with a consenting woman, who is not not that of the current procedure.
The prelate had denied this connection, recognizing only a “ambiguous, leaving the existence of an intimate relationship and sexual relations”. The diocese also had at the time admitted “an ambiguous behavior” of Mr. Aupetit, while denying the existence of any “romantic relationship” or “sexual”. But these rumors had finally forced the Archbishop of Paris to put his resignation to Pope Francis at the end of November 2021.
The pope had accepted him regrettable, explaining to the press his decision by the fact that the ecclesiastics could no longer govern “because of” gossip “:” when the gossip grow, grow, grow and take the Reputation of a man, he can no longer govern. He has lost his reputation not for his sin (…), but because of the gossip. A man whose reputation has been reached in this way publicly can no longer govern. And this is an injustice. This is why I accepted Aupetit’s resignation, not on the altar of truth, but on that of hypocrisy “.
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