A new required trial, this time against six religious – Liberation
Six religious before the courts. The Bethune prosecution requested the referral to the criminal court of six members of The traditionalist Catholic community of Riaumont (Pas-de-Calais) for voluntary violence on minors, announced the prosecutor on Saturday March 8, confirming information from Parisian,, Who specifies that these requisitions were made on February 26.
These six members of the community were under judicial supervision, said Etienne Thieffry, public prosecutor of Bethune. The facts alleged against them are « Violence without incapacity », underlined Me Myriam Mayel, lawyer of five of the six religious.
Installed since 1960 on a vast wooded property in Liévin, near Lens, this religious community was hardly talking about it until the revelation, in 2018, of several judicial investigations concerning it, on facts of sexual nature and child abusewith 11 introductions in total.
The first trial concerning Riaumont must be held this Tuesday, March 11, the day when the old prior, aged 60, will be tried for « Damn of usual online consultation, acquisition or detention of child pornographic»» between 2012 and 2017. according to the Parisianhe is also one of the six people against whom the Béthune prosecution requires a referral to the criminal court for violence on minors.
Two other legal information is underway: one for rape and another for sexual assault, two people being indicted concerning the first case and two others concerning the second.
In 2019, the private school outside contract that the Riaumont community housed until then was the subject of an administrative closure, before being struck off by the rectorate of the Academy of Lille, a decision confirmed in the last instance by the Council of State in 2024.
On January 10, the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais also prohibited the community of Riaumont from hosting scout stays during the 2024-2025 school year, a measure as a preventive basis, its premises being « Likely to accommodate people who have prohibited from approaching minors »according to the prefectural decree.
