French police have arrested two Jewish men from Paris on suspicion
they pressured parents of allegedly molested minors not to press charges.
The
two men, identified as Andre T. and Rabbi A., were arrested July 31, according
to the RTL news network.
The two men deny the allegations, the report said. The
actions attributed to the men are connected to sexual abuse allegations at the
Chabad-Lubavitch Beth Hannah elementary school for boys.
A supervisor at the
school was indicted for sexual abuse of minors last year, AFP reported, and a
principal, Rabbi Benjamin M., was indicted in February for “non-reporting of
sexual abuse of minors under 15 years” of age.
The men are both senior members
of the Chabad movement in the Paris region, RTL reported.
In a perceived
reaction to the Beth Hannah affair, the Rabbinical Centre of Europe — an
organization where senior Chabad rabbis hold key positions — issued a strongly
worded statement in April urging “educational institutions to stop covering up
abuse of children and in general.
” The statement came at the end of the annual
session in Paris of the center’s Rabbinical Council, which appointed a special
advisory committee on abuse in educational institutions headed by Binyomin
Jacobs, a chief Dutch rabbi, and Rabbi Yitzchak Rubin of Manchester, England.
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