Police question Belgian priest wanted in Canada abuse probe
Windsor Star
AFP September 13, 2010
BRUSSELS – Police questioned a convicted Belgian priest who faces complaints of sexual abuse in Canada, but stopped short of an arrest in the absence of extradition moves, a judicial source said Monday.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, a Flemish priest who worked as a missionary with Inuits in the 1970s, was sentenced in 1990 to five years behind bars for the rape of eight children before being released after 18 months.
Fresh allegations emerged in 1995, leading to Dejaeger’s return to Belgium last year, and he contacted police in Louvain, near Brusssels, on Monday morning, after which he was interviewed, a spokesman for prosecutors said.
The official said he was not arrested owing to the “lack of a judicial basis,” or an extradition order, despite being flagged on an Interpol list for the past nine years.
Louvain prosecutors said they had asked Canadian authorities for additional information. Dejaeger had told Belgian media in advance he would give himself up.
Rocked by revelations of 13 suicides among an avalanche of abuse testimony, Belgium’s Catholic Church vowed on Monday to listen to its victims but steered clear of any witch hunt.
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Belgian priest wanted in Canada surfaces
CNews (cnews.canoe.ca)
13 September 2010
By Reuters
BRUSSELS – A Belgian priest wanted in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children“ issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information. There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities.
He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
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Belgian priest wanted for Canada abuse surfaces
MSNBC
updated 9/13/2010 9:30:32 AM ET
Reuters
BRUSSELS — A Belgian priest wanted
in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children” issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information. There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities.
He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
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Belgian Priest Wanted For Canada Abuse Surfaces
India Times (oneclick.indiatimes.com)
The Post Chronicle
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212322815.shtml?ref=rss
13 September 2010
by Staff
A Belgian priest wanted in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium
on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children” issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information. There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities.
He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop)
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Belgian priest wanted in Canada surfaces
Edmonton Sun
Last Updated: September 13, 2010 7:06am
By Reuters
BRUSSELS – A Belgian priest wanted in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children“ issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information. There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities.
He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
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Belgian priest wanted for Canada abuse surfaces
KyivPost (Ukraine)
13 September 2010 at 16:25 | Reuters
A Belgian priest wanted in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children” issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information.
There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities. He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
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Belgian priest wanted for Canada abuse surfaces
GlobalNews24.com
– Mon Sep 13, 9:30 am ET
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian priest wanted in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children” issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information. There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities.
He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop)
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Belgian priest wanted in Canada surfaces
By Reuters
Last Updated: September 13, 2010 7:06am
BRUSSELS – A Belgian priest wanted in Canada on allegations of child sexual abuse made contact with justice authorities in Belgium on Monday in a move that could lead to his extradition.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, is on Interpol’s international list of wanted people based on a warrant for “crimes against children“ issued by authorities in Igloolik, an island in the far north of Canada.
Prosecutors in the Belgian city of Leuven said Dejaeger had telephoned them early on Monday and that local police had taken him away for questioning.
The prosecutors said in a short statement they had asked the Canadian authorities for further information. There is no extradition request from Canada, so Dejaeger was free to return to the abbey south of Leuven where he is living.
Interpol says Dejaeger has joint Belgian and Canadian nationalities.
He is not connected to revelations of abuse by priests committed in Belgium that have rocked the Church and forced the resignation of a bishop who admitted abusing his nephew.
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Your Comments
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Miche,
September 13th 2010, 5:07pm
No Problem solver. Predators who are mentally disturbed with master and control appetite for young soft people with no voice as a sexual turn on button that is the type of freak he is. The church is where theses freaks go to indulge in the all the minors you can control with fear and rape buffet. It’s not women they want it’s children they need.
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problem solver
September 13th 2010, 9:20am
its the practice of celibacy that is the root of the issue. our religion says we must practice it for deacons/priests/pastor/bishop/pope. this forces a man’s naturally sexual urges to be supressed. not everyone can be that strong or disciplined. why so many homosexual cases? altar boys are more common, not altar girls. whatever is available in abundance, that’s all you get. More progressive parishes then have girls serving, so some cases involve girls. Then you have other priests that are involved in youth activities, and its easier access.
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terry
September 13th 2010, 8:46am
this thing with the catholics will continue for as long as there are children to attack and there is a man who has a problem with sexuality re children it will go on until perverts are removed from the system and that will happen when there are no more children in crisis sad sad sad