The pinnacle of France’s Orthodox Church on Friday introduced an inside investigation into alleged youngster abuse at a monastery within the southern Herault area greater than 30 years in the past.
The announcement got here after Liberation newspaper reported the account of three brothers who stated that they had been repeatedly raped there as youngsters.
They stated two members of the of the Orthodox monastery of Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Dalmerie within the late Seventies had abused them, beginning after they have been 8, 10 and 12 years previous respectively.
“Studying this text and the knowledge it incorporates, their assertion is well-founded,” stated Metropolitan Dimitrios, head of the Orthodox Church in France.
In an announcement he promised to “search and set up the reality.
“The authors of those acts are actually useless and the unspeakable acts they dedicated” occurred too way back to be prosecuted within the French courts, he added.
“That’s the reason we’re dedicated to conducting an open and clear investigation into this monastery, its previous and its current.”
He can be “attentive to any new case which may emerge on this or some other context”, he added, would cooperate with the authorities and, it they needed it, meet with the victims.
AFP couldn’t attain the monastery for touch upon Friday.
