Suspended after confessing to “committing sexual assault on minors” in the nineties in Brazil🇧🇷 The announcement by the Archbishop of Poitiers, Pascal Wintzer, was made against Fr. Gabriele-Arcangelo Biagioni, an Italian priest from Deux-Sevresin the French region of New Aquitaine, underlining in a note quoted by ‘Le Figaro’ as the pastor of the parish of Saint-Junien en Mellois, “came spontaneously” to meet him. Confession of which the prosecutor was immediately informed, added Wintzer.
“Nothing is mentioned either on this subject or on his ministry in Brazil in the file regarding him in the archdiocese”.
However, it must be said that, being the italian priest and the facts in question “committed abroad”, according to the archbishop, no legal proceedings can take place in France🇧🇷
Father Gabriele-Arcangelo Biagioni has been suspended since December 7, “banned from any ministry” and from “contact with minors”. Bishop Wintzer assured that he is not aware of any abuse involving him in France.
“I appreciate the importance of making such decisions public, especially to protect people who may be affected by them. victims”, he continued, urging anyone who has doubts about the actions of this priest during his ministry in France to speak with the “competent authorities”.
Between 1950 and 2020 in France there were 216,000 i cases of pedophilia in the Catholic Church🇧🇷 This is what emerged from the Sauvé report, drawn up in October 2021, after two and a half years of work conducted by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase). The number of victims rises to “330,000 if we add the lay aggressors who work in institutions of the Catholic Church”, reads the report.
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