France, the path of listening and reform continues for victims of ill -treatment

Jean – Benin Harril – Vatican City

“The challenge is the permanent transformation of what we do.” This was mentioned during a press conference organized yesterday, Tuesday, March 25, in Paris, Mary Derene de Vochson, head of the National Authority, independent of recognition and reform of victims of the clergy violations, which were created after the CIASE report, which first balanced its activities. On behalf of the French Church, the body undertakes to fulfill the duty of justice and reform to those who have suffered from sexual assault by clerics. In three years, 1580 people went to INirr and 1235 accompanying them. Most of them were men (66 %) with an average of 61 years. It was “an extraordinary job, which was carried out with 40 employees and volunteers, especially given that in 2022 we were only dozens.”

Road repair

If the requests are very many in the first year (1136 in 2022), the organization has also witnessed an increase in recent months, due to the interest of the media in France for violence that was committed within the Bétharram Notre-Dame Lyceum, but also to the revelation of Abate Pierre. “You have to continue talking about it,” says Marie Dern de Fauserson. “We see very committed bishops,” he said, explaining the progress of progress in recognition of responsibility, unfortunately because this commitment is not shared by “all bishops” and “all over the church.”

In addition to economic compensation, which could reach up to 60,000 euros, INirr also developed repair paths, as it has made more than 200 initiatives of this type for 2024. One in four of these accompanying means to restore dialogue or association with the church. Julian, one of the victims in a row by the organization, gave a voice to feel the abandonment he felt when he condemned the violations he suffered. After the reform line, he now declared “completely quiet and able to enter the church.” These paths may include various activities, such as the intervention of the bishop in a diocese that is involved in abuse or archive reading by the bishop with the victim. The requests of those who suffered from violence and harassment have multiplied to talk about what he lived with their loved ones or their families, which confirms the need to break the “silence that crushes”.

Individual tour of the group story

Among the initiatives, there were also many conversations between the accompanying people and the inir representatives to “the transition from painful memory to the biography memory,” said Miriam Duba, representative of the independent organization. This is the path of generation, 53 years old, one of the victims of Father Brianin in Lyon. After years of uncertainty, psychoanalysis and suffering, his meeting with Monsignor Logduk, the bishop of the assistant Lyon, was an important step: “This was not direct to those who directed me, but to all the bishops who covered the violations of this priest.” Now I found a generation, partially due to the path that was made with INirr.

Inirr future

The initial mandate for the national example was independent of the ET De Réparaaction for three years, but it was extended until June 2026. However, some questions are asked in the future. For example, the head of VaucrassSon said, for example, the enhancement of calls to the testimony in the diocese. To evaluate the work of inir, a study was launched to assess the effects of justice methods. The results will be published in June 2026. “We cannot be indifferent to the fate of the victims, in the name of these brothers. We must feel engaged with a wrong person next to us. ”