La Salle takes the abuses at his school in Premià de Mar to the prosecution

The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (La Salle) has moved this Thursday to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Barcelona Court the information published by EL PERIÓDICO and that includes the testimony of seven new victims of the pederasty of the former teacher of La Salle Premià de Mar (Maresme) Jesus Linaresthe same one who sexually abused and raped the writer Alexander Pigeons in the mid seventies. The religious organization, which runs the school in which the abuses reported by these people occurred, has contacted the public ministry to investigate and determine if crimes have been committed and establish responsibilities.

The cases reported by the lawyer Carles Monguilod, and which appear in the news published both by this newspaper and by elDiario.es, concern new abuses allegedly committed by Jesús Linares during the 70s, 80s and 2000s at that school. The head of institutional relations at La Salle, Isabel Laugerhas stressed that the brotherhood has “full collaboration” to provide “the information they have” after opening an internal investigation ten days ago into the complaint of abuse made publicly by the writer Alexander Pigeons. Llauger has also asked the victims of abuse for “forgiveness” and has encouraged them to contact the La Salle institution in order to verify their cases, ask their forgiveness and establish possible reparations for the damage caused through the mail ‘proteccion@ lasalle.es’. “La Salle is the first interested in knowing what happened to know what responsibility it had, assuming that there was a deficient performance by the institution”, Llauger affirmed.

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The testimony of Alejandro Palomas, who two weeks ago made public the serious sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Linares during his schooling at the Premià de Mar school, moved and encouraged the rest of the victims who have now made their cases public. The writer, for his part, has formalized a complaint in the Mataró court, which has opened proceedings and has sent Palomas’s statement to the prosecution so that he can assess whether or not he can accuse Linares. The possibility seems remote given that the abuses described happened almost fifty years ago and have already prescribed. Linares, who is currently 91 years old, lives in a residence. He left school seven or eight years ago but was in contact with minors until then. Two of the testimonies published by this newspaper refer to abuses that occurred in the 2000s that may not have prescribed. If a complaint were made by any of these victims, who have not yet made the decision to present it, it would be possible to prosecute Linares and investigate the facts of which he is accused by the police.