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FILE - In this Jan.4, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Apostolic Nuncio to France Luigi Ventura, at the Elysee Palace in Paris.A Paris court is expected to hand out its verdict Wednesday on a former Vatican ambassador on trial in France for sexually assaulting five men in 2018 and 2019. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP, File)

Paris court convicts former Vatican envoy of sexual assault

By MASHA MACPHERSON - Associated Press

In this Jan.4, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Apostolic Nuncio to France Luigi Ventura, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Multiple men have accused Archbishop Luigi Ventura of groping and inappropriate touching, and the Vatican’s former ambassador to France goes on trial Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, for alleged sexual misconduct. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP, File)

Ex-Vatican envoy faces sexual abuse charge in French court

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Mathieu De La Souchere speaks on his cellphone after an interview with The Associated Press in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. One of the half-dozen men who have accused the Vatican’s ambassador to France of groping them is taking his complaint directly to the Vatican after claiming the Holy See had invoked diplomatic immunity in a French criminal probe. Mathieu De La Souchere met with one of Pope Francis’ sex abuse advisers on Wednesday after filing a police report in Paris earlier this year. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Frenchman takes groping complaint case to Vatican

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FILE - In this Jan.4, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron greets Apostolic Nuncio to France Luigi Ventura during his New Year address to diplomats at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into alleged &quot;sexual aggression&quot; by Luigi Ventura, the Vatican's envoy to France, according to a French judicial official. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP, File)

Vatican’s envoy to France facing ‘sexual aggression’ probe

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press