The objective is to form a “commission that depends on the Ombudsman” and that includes “experts, representatives of victims’ associations, also of the clergy, of public administrations”, to produce a report “as strong as possible”, he explained. at a press conference the socialist spokesman, Héctor Gómez.
We want to “deal with the victims in the most rigorous way possible, but also in the most empathetic and fair way possible with the victims, an issue that our country cannot take any longer,” said the socialist deputy Carmen Calvo.
Unlike other countries such as Australia, Ireland, the United States, Germany or France, In Spain, to date, there has been no official investigation, neither by the State nor by the Catholic Church, into pedophilia by religious.
The newspaper El País, which has a mailbox to receive complaints, has counted 1,246 victims since the 1930s, in this country with a strong Catholic tradition.
The Church, which rules out promoting an exhaustive investigation and claims to have implemented protocols for action against abuse and installed offices in the dioceses to receive complaints, recognizes only 220 cases since 2001.
The government will contact “the Catholic Church to ask for its cooperation” with the commission, since “in other countries it has been the Catholic Church itself that has taken the initiative, as in France,” said Calvo.
Spain “is playing an important part of the dignity and value of our democracy,” said Calvo, vice president of the government of Pedro Sánchez until last July.
Congress admitted for processing last week another request to investigate the abuses, but from the legislature, requested by the minority partner of the Socialists in the government, the leftist We canand two regional breakaway parties.
The Socialists were optimistic that they would gain the support of Podemos and other parties so that their proposal would materialize and the commission of experts could begin to function “as soon as possible,” said Héctor Gómez.
The political impetus for an investigation of the abuses came after a highly publicized case, that of the Catalan writer Alexander Pigeonswho at the end of January reported having been abused by a religious in a Catholic school in the 70s when he was 8 years old.
Sánchez gave Palomas unusual public support and received him at the Palacio de Moncloa last Thursday.
Source: Ambito
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