They investigate the pope's "ambassador" in France for sexual assault

Another bad scandal in the Catholic Church. The Apostolic Nuncio to France, that is to say the "Ambbadador" of the Vatican, Msgr. Luigi Ventura, is the subject of an investigation by the "Sexual badault" alleged, the newspaper revealed The world.

The prosecution opened an investigation on January 24 after a young employee of the Paris mayor's office claimed that the prelate of 74 years pledged him several times at a ceremony at City Hall on January 17th.

"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 suffered on several occasions, three times, badual touching, bad in the bad rather daring, one of them in front of a witness, "said a member of the mayor 's office at the AFP news agency.

The alleged victim, a young man of about thirty years, denounced what happened to his superiors, who warned justice.

Ventura is the diplomatic representative of the Holy See in France since 2009. Previously, he was a priest at the nunciature of Brazil, Bolivia and the United Kingdom, after which he was appointed Secretary of State in Rome.

Later, he served as Apostolic Nuncio in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chile.