The first application for compensation regarding the harassment of Father Peter, a French clergyman and the founder of the Emmaus movement, said Franceinfo on Saturday. The application was submitted by a man who announced that he was harassed by a clergyman when he was 13 years old.
As Franceinfo reported on Saturday, this man turned in January this year. to the independent national instance for recognition and compensation (inirr). This institution was established by the French church to make amends to the victims of pedophilia.
Earlier, this man submitted a relationship about the deeds of the deeds of the deeds of the deeds in the 1980s.
Father Pierre, founder of the Emmaus movementReuters Archive
This is the first known case of compensation for compensation regarding the founder of the Emmaus movement, which has been dead since 2007. The first relationships that indicate that Father Piotr committed sexual assaults towards women and girls, appeared in the summer of 2024. Currently, over 30 such cases are known. Persons who have been victims of sexual abuse on the part of the clergy can ask for compensation to inirr when they were underage.
The prosecutor's office cannot initiate an investigation
The Paris prosecutor's office informed in February that it is no longer possible to open an investigation into acts accused of Father Piotr because of his death and limitation (it concerns a possible notification of a crime).
Father Piotr was the founder of the Emmaus movement known in many countries, whose goal is to support the poorest, homeless and refugees. He was born in 1912 in Lyon in a wealthy family as Henri Groues, and in 1931 he joined the Capuchin Order. During World War II he was a resistance activist. In 1949 he founded the Emmaus association and created the first shelter for the poor in Neuilly-Plaisance. He died in 2007.
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