In Lourdes, worried debates on sexual violence in the Church – Liberation

Weighing, the silence is sudden in this amphitheater, located on the heights of Lourdes. Olivier Bunnel, a victim among dozens and dozens of others from Betharram Tuesday April 1 Tuesday at the end of the morning, the microphone and comes to stand in front of the assembly of 300 people including a third of Catholic bishops. Whoever dreamed of a line of becoming a line pilot tells, once again, the physical and sexual violence suffered during the sixty-one weeks that he spent in « This refuge and this playground for pedocriminals and tyrants ». Referring to his attacker, Olivier Bunnel, 54, says: « He masturbated and devoted himself to practices … To my grandmother, I said that he kisses me on the Zizi. At 11, I had the words to name (assaults). ”

Meeting two days to take a stage on the work involved in the fight against sexual violence in the Catholic Church, the Assembly, caught up in burning news, applauds, as a long tribute, the former Betharram student. Thanks him those who, in recent weeks, have brought her advice and support, in particular the theologian Véronique Margron, a great figure of this fight and the two or three bishops who