GERMANY
International Business Times
By Isabelle Gerretsen
July 20, 2017
The brother of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI established a “reign of fear” while head of boys’ choir at one of Germany’s most famous Roman Catholic schools, where more than 500 pupils were physically and sexually abused between 1945 and 2015.
A report published this week accused 49 members of abusing 547 young boys who sang in the Regensburger Domspatzen choir over a period of 60 years.
Benedict’s older brother, Georg Ratzinger, was the choirmaster between 1964 and 1994.
His successor, Roland Büchner, told German newspaper Die Zeit that Ratzinger was an “impulsive, fanatical and merciless”
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