Retired Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit is preparing a libel suit against the oligarchs' ParisMatch.com which insinuated that he was having a “love affair”.
“I cannot accept that my silence is interpreted as an admission of guilt,” Aupetit told LeParisien.fr (December 15). About the woman he was allegedly involved in 2012 he said,
“She was a person who, as often happens when you are a priest or a doctor, gets attached because she suffers from loneliness. She wrote to me every day. I answered a letter, and my secretary was able to read it, since we shared the same e-mail box. There was no affair. Once, this person had a backache. I gave her a massage to relieve her. I remind you that I am a physician.”
Aupetit also said that some years ago, he reported the matter to his superiors, "There is really nothing new in this case."
LeParisien.fr recalls that Francis spoke of "’caresses’ and ‘massages’ given to a secretary.” Aupetit’s reply; “I think he got the story a bit mixed up. My poor …More