A total of 234 former students of the Jesuitas de Casp school have signed a letter addressed to the center in which they ask those responsible for more forceful actions and open the path of ordinary justice against the religious F.P., whom the Jesuit order is investigating for alleged abuses.
In the letter that they have sent to the Casp school today and to which EFE has had access, the former students denounce that “there has not been a firm and public position of condemnation by the institution and in particular by the Casp School”.
Last week, the Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order in Spain, opened an investigation into F.P., whom he had already removed in 2005 for “improper conduct” with a student from the Casp street school in Barcelona.
The investigation has been initiated as a result of a journalistic publication published by the newspaper El PaÃs in which it is denounced that the religious had committed abuses at the Casp street school, where he spent 30 years, and for a period of time, between 1982 and 1983, in Bolivia.
In this regard, the former students denounce in the letter that the Society of Jesus “refuses to give information about F.P. and his transfer to the Andean country.”
“As former students we feel deep indignation and consider it extremely serious that the Society of Jesus has not acted decisively to facilitate the investigation by the media and to denounce and repair, to the extent possible, the victims in the case that concerns us”, add the signatories.
One of the signatories, Jordi Nomdedeu, explained to EFE that the letter arose from the class of 1997, which this year celebrates the 25th anniversary of its graduation, and that after reading the news in the press they decided to write it to send it to the center and make it extensive to other promotions and that the response “has been very successful and the support is transversal”.
“F.P. was part of our day to day”, he was the priest who “gave us sexual education”, the “coolest”, with whom “we organized many activities such as relaxation sessions with massages or spiritualism” and who “with the perspective over time we see that they had a sexual component for him”, the former student recounted.
Jordi Nomdedeu has assessed that “from the outside, at that time the facts could not be properly assessed” since “the border was very fine” and “there were many families that defended the way of doing things” of the Jesuit but that now “in the light of the facts, they regret having supported it”.
Everything that has come out “touches us a lot emotionally” and “we are surprised” that there has not been a “firm” response from the institution, said the former student of F.P., who added that the performance of the center “induces to think that everything has been swept under the rug”.
The Jesuits “had evidence of inappropriate conduct” by F.P. since the first complaint in the 1990s and he was not removed from teaching until 2005, Jordi Nomdedeu lamented.
“Under no circumstances can it be considered a valid and sufficient response to regret the facts without condemning them, to make communications of a merely internal nature, to protect the identity of the aggressor and to ignore the mechanisms for reporting through the courts,” reads the letter sent to the school.
For this reason, in the text, the former students ask the school and the institution to issue a public statement condemning and rejecting the facts investigated and published, “as the first measure of assumption of responsibility by the institution.”
Likewise, they demand that they make themselves available to the victims and offer them a channel to facilitate contact between possible people who want to report the facts through the courts or who want to start a process of collective care.
Another of the requests is to maintain an internal investigation to find out if the different transfers from the F.P. they were mediated by possible complaints or by indications of possible abuses.
Investigating possible abuses by other Jesuits as well as cover-ups to make them possible and, where appropriate, denounce them through the courts is part of the requests of the former students, who also demand that any person implicated in these be removed from the exercise of their activity and their positions. cases.
The signatories also demand that any recognition of F.P. as well as any other author or accomplice of acts such as those denounced.
“Collaborate with the media so that public opinion is aware of the facts and thus contribute to building a collective social rejection and, what is more important, to prevent and avoid this scourge that has occurred in recent decades and repeatedly within the Catholic Church” is another of the demands.