FRANCE
RFI
French prosecutors temporarily have closed down a traditionalist Catholic school and launched an investigation into allegations of child abuse, some possibly of a sexual nature.
Gendarmes raided the Angelus school in a village in central France on Friday, closing it until the end of the next school holidays.
About 60 of the 109 pupils were interviewed about allegations of physical abuse and corporal punishment and “suspicions of offences of a sexual nature”, according to public prosecutor Joël Garrigue.
There are also suspicions of illegal work and fraud, he said, adding that the school’s director, Abbé Régis Spinoza, was detained to ensure that he would be present during the raid.
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