Ex-vatican Envoy to France Gets 8-month Suspended Sentence for Sexual Harassment -afp

Reuters
December 16, 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-religion-vatican-idUSKBN28Q2J8

PARIS (Reuters) - A French court has found former Vatican ambassador to France Luigi Ventura guilty of sexual harassment against five men in 2018 and 2019 and given him an eight-month suspended sentence, AFP reported on its Twitter feed on Wednesday.

Prosecutors had opened an investigation after a junior official at Paris City Hall accused the papal nuncio, then 74, of molestation in January 2019, and city authorities filed a complaint. Other men later came forward with similar allegations.

Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Mark Heinrich