During the event in front of the Catalan Chamber and chaired by the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and of the Parliament, Josep Rull, the participants They banged pots and pans at first.
In statements to the media, the first plaintiff in the abbey abuse case, Miguel Hurtado, criticized the fact that the laws do not prescribe the crimes of sexual abuse, according to him, they are paralyzed: “Do you really think that in a civilized country a public institution would give a gold medal to an institution that refuses to compensate victims?”
Hurtado accused the Catalan Chamber not to read the letter which they sent explaining why they did not consider it appropriate to grant this recognition to the Montserrat Abbey and argued that this shows that “Parliament is incapable of investigating cases of paedophilia”.
Abbey acknowledges ‘errors’ in its history
During the ceremony for the presentation of this Medal of Honor, the abbot of the Abbey of Montserrat, Manel Gasch, recognized that in the thousand years of history of the temple, “mistakes are also made.”
Thus, Gasch assured that these errors of the Abbey They help to grow if they are recognized and accepted.verbatim. “Looking at the history of Montserrat, over these thousand years, how many things have not happened that could have been done better? Some we know, we have lived them, others we have recognized and we try to amend them every day,” he noted in a veiled reference to cases of sexual abuse.
The abbot added that some of these things that were done wrong are not known and “will have been buried in this day which constitutes the passage of time.”
