The two commissions set up after the publication of the CIASse report made their first balance sheets on Thursday and insist on the existence of many brakes, whose difficulty for the victims to tell their attack again.
by Sarah Belouezane
The figures had created a shock. Between 216,000 and 330,000 people were identified as victims by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse within the Church (CIASE), in the report it had published in 2021. A tragedy in which the institution tried to respond in part by putting in place two reparation bodies: the Commission for Recognition and Reparation (CRR) for the victims of the religious and the independent national body of recognition and repairs (INSIRR) for minor victims at the time facts. Two independent organizations each composed of a few dozen members exercising various professions and accustomed to the reception of victims, such as jurists or psychologists.
For a year, they both work. Twelve months that files are compared every day to try to carry out a mission all the more delicate as crimes are most often prescribed and that justice no longer has its place in the process. Thursday 1 er December, the two made public the results of their activity.
Reading that of the CRR, the observation is most striking: the few cases processed and especially brought to the attention of the body, with regard to the number of people potentially concerned. Today, 450 victims are “recognized and accompanied” by the CRR and 80 repair recommendations, financial or not, were made by the body, out of 560 referrals, some of which did not fall under its competence. “Minor victims are 70 % of men, while majority of vulnerability are two thirds of women” for mainly committed attacks between the 1960s and 1980s, written the institution in a press release.
At Inirr, the figures are also low at first glance: 1,098 requests were received, 220 are being examined with the target of 300 cases treated by the end of 2022. One hundred decisions have been taken, 71 of which include a financial component. A drop of water, whose managers who try to respond to all requests are well aware.
“We have to get to know better”
“It challenges us,” admits Antoine Garapon, honorary magistrate and former member of the Ciase, today at the head of the CRR. For him, “it is obvious” that neither of the authorities can “definition” “have access to all victims”. “There are lots of mechanisms which, in the Church, make people inhibited, unable to come and see us, because they are destroyed”.
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