The Vatican ambassador to France has been accused of sexual assault

ROME – Less than a week after an unprecedented summit on the protection of minors, a new bomb shook today

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: the apostolic nuncio

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Luigi Ventura is currently under investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office for alleged "badual badault".

This was revealed by the newspaper
Le Monde wrote that the papal ambbadador in Paris – a 74-year-old Italian prelate – was summoned to "test" a young commune official at an official ceremony on 17 January.

Acting spokesman for the Vatican, Alessandro Gisotti, confirmed that the Holy See had learned from the press that an "investigation had been opened by the French authorities against Bishop Ventura, apostolic nuncio to she "stayed waiting for the result."

Appointed "ambbadador" of the Vatican in Paris by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2009 – a position deemed very important – Ventura has a long diplomatic career on his shoulders: he worked at the nunciature of Brazil, Bolivia and the United Kingdom and was apostolic in Côte d 'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chile, and Canada.

According to the newspaper Le Monde, this prelate would have constantly asked a young head of the delegation for international relations of the town, responsible for receiving it at the aforementioned reception. According to Le Monde, the Municipality denounced the facts to the police on January 23 on the basis of article 40 which obliges the authorities to report any possible crime.

"There was an incident at a New Year's ceremony before the diplomatic authorities and we quickly made the decision to report it to the prosecutor's office," said Patrick Klugman, head of international relations at the mayor's office. from Paris.

During the act, "a municipal officer has been subjected to three badual touching three times, groping in the bad, one of them in front of a witness," said a member of the Mayor's office at AFP.

The alleged victim, a young man in his thirties, told what had happened to his superiors. Attorney Remi Heitz immediately opened an investigation for "badual badault".

This is not the first time that a top Vatican diplomat is involved in a scandal of this kind. In June of last year, the Vatican sentenced to 5 years in prison and 5000 euros fine to Monsignor
Carlo Capella, former diplomat of the Holy See, found guilty of "disclosure, transmission, offer and detention" of child badgraphy. Earlier, he had initiated a new procedure for the same types of crimes against the ex-nuncio in the Dominican Republic, the Polish prelate Jozef Wesolowski, who died before the trial began.