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Francois Devaux, founder of victim association "La parole liberee", speaks during the publishing of a report by an independant commission into sexual abuse by church officials

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Video. French clergy abused 216,000 children since 1950, says inquiry

Updated: 06/10/2021 - 11:45 GMT+2

France's Catholic Church showed "a profound and even cruel indifference towards the victims" of abuse, the head of the inquiry said.

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