Belgian court bins church paedophile raids evidence

[Soutane]

Belgian court bins church paedophile raids evidence
(AFP) – 21 hours ago

BRUSSELS — Belgian judges ruled invalid on Thursday truckloads of evidence seized by police in summer raids probing paedophile scandals within the country’s Roman Catholic Church.

An appeals court deemed the raids, on the church headquarters in Brussels and at the home of its former top cardinal, disproportionate, and ordered that the material – on hundreds of individual investigations conducted by an internal church commission – be returned with prosecutors unable to use it.

The current archbishop, Andre-Joseph Leonard, said after the decision was made public that “it is in everyone’s interests that the fundamental rules of law are respected.”

He said that he is “in no way opposed to a correctly-run judicial investigation” and that he was "satisfied that clarity has finally been shone on this affair

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[Spirithound]

I really wish this hadn’t happened. We need to clear the air and get past this.

 

[Soutane]

We’ve been clearing the air for the past five years and will be clearing it for the next twenty.It will take the structure of the church generations to recover from this filth.So get used to that cross on your shoulder because you’ll be carrying it to the grave.