An independent commission will investigate the sexual abuse of the Spanish Church

Front of parliamentary committee that various left-wing groups demanded, Pedro Sanchez has chosen a independent body to clarify the sexual abuses of the Spanish Church. The President of the Government wants the new entity, made up of experts and members of different groups (including both victims and the clergy), to be led by the Ombudsman.

The initiative, advanced by the newspaper ‘El País’, still has to be validated by Congress. The PSOE will register this Monday a non-law proposal, which will be voted on in the coming weeks, in which the institution it directs is entrusted Angel Gabilondo the elaboration of a report on abuses in the Catholic Church, with the aim of determining responsibilities, repair those affected and plan prevention and care policies for these cases.

Last Tuesday, the PSOE supported the admission for processing of an initiative of United We Can, ERC and Bildu so that it would be a parliamentary commission that would clarify these crimes, in parallel to the decision of the State Attorney General’s Office to ask the autonomous public prosecutor’s offices to send all the complaints and lawsuits in process about assaults and sexual abuse to minors committed by religious But the Socialists made it clear soon after that this was not the way they saw it. most suitable, since a body of this type, within the Congress of Deputies and made up of political representatives, could become “a circus”.

The model chosen by Sánchez, which except for surprise will be validated by the Lower House, is similar to french where an independent body recently concluded that since 1950 more than 200,000 minors had been abused by nearly 3,000 religious. But with a important difference: in the neighboring country it was the Church itself that promoted this decision, a completely different attitude from that of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), that so far has not been carried out no decided step to investigate these crimes.

An “earthquake”

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Sanchez’s decision was well received by one of the victims, the Barcelona writer Alexander Pigeons, with whom the Prime Minister met last Thursday. “We did it! On Thursday I left Moncloa with a promise. Today, 64 hours later, I wake up with what was promised. The echo of many small voices is, added together, an earthquake. Let’s not forget it. Today is a great day,” Palomas wrote on Twitter.

Sánchez himself answered him on the same social network. “The victims they can’t stay silent –he pointed out-. It’s time to repair your pain and prevent it from happening again. With the commitment that the abuses committed within the Church do not go unpunished.”