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- 1France pays millions in reparations to church abuse victims●Thousands of victims, millions in reparations. How France handled mass church sex abuse
France has moved to compensate thousands of victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, with millions paid out in reparations. The reckoning follows years of revelations about widespread abuse by clergy and cover-ups by church authorities. The scale of the compensation scheme has drawn attention to how France is confronting one of the largest institutional abuse scandals in Europe.