The bishop of the Diocese of Fano Fossombrone Cagli Pergola., Monsignor Andrea Andreozzi, has decided to reinstate Don Giacomo Ruggeri. Not in Fano, but in Pergola. According to what we read on vivefano.com he will be among the collaborators in the Pergolese parish, he who held various positions until 2012, including that of parish priest of Orciano, head of relations with the press, spokesperson for the former bishop Armando Trasarti , and not only. Twelve years ago, however, he was accused of having abused a 13-year-old girl on the beach of Torrette di Fano. Then the trial, the sentence of 1 year and 11 months. Afterwards he continued to carry out church roles between Perugia and Pordenone. But now it is time for the return, in the waltz of the new appointments announced on Friday morning, and Bishop Andrea felt the need to prepare the ground. To demine it, precisely.
“I don’t expect you to agree with me – he began -, nor approval, but I’ll give you my reasons. I would like to propose a new look at this story. I met Don Giacomo several years ago, on a ship. Since last October there have been several meetings with him in Pordenone. We have established a careful and constructive dialogue. The greatest premise is my greatest respect for the victims of this affair, with whom I also had the opportunity to speak. But Don Ruggeri has been defined as a recidivist pedophile and a serial rapist. If I believed that too, I would never have taken this step.”
Don Andrea – who wrote a long letter on the issue – proposed “freeing time from the chains of the past, and welcoming a brother”. From the judicial and canonical process to the rebirth of “a man I don’t want to die in exile”.
