Searches and lawsuit

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Abuse scandal in Chile: authorities search offices of bishops' conference © Luis Hidalgo

The judiciary has again searched premises of the Catholic Church in Chile. Meanwhile, a foundation formulated a lawsuit against two Chilean cardinals, accusing them of cover-up.

In Chile, investigators on Tuesday (local time) searched the offices of the Chilean bishops' conference in the capital Santiago as part of the investigation into the abuse scandal and seized files. According to Chilean media, the conference is to deal with investigations into the case of the religious order of the Marist school brothers. There clergymen allegedly abused seminarians.

Officials from the department against sexual crimes entered the offices around noon accompanied by prosecutor Raul Guzman, the portal "24 Horas" reported. Juan Carlos Cruz, a victim of abuse in the Chilean church who fought for years to bring abuse cases in the church to light, commented that he didn't want to imagine what it would be like there: "It's like Ali Baba's cave."

Lawsuit over cover-up

Meanwhile, Chile's embassy to the Holy See sent the Vatican an official request for access to the extensive investigation report by the special investigator sent to Chile by Pope Francis, Archbishop Charles Siciluna (Malta). The daily "La Tercera" reported that the "Foundation for Trust," which represents the rights of abuse victims, filed a lawsuit Tuesday for cover-up against Cardinals Francisco Javier Errazuriz and Ricardo Ezzati, among others.

Ezzati to be questioned by investigating authorities next week. His lawyer said Ezzati was innocent of the charges. A complaint of sexual abuse has been filed against two other clergy of the Archdiocese of Santiago on the part of the Foundation.

Papal tribute

At a special plenary meeting, the Chilean bishops recently discussed how to proceed in the scandal of sexual abuse of minors and decided, among other things, to give the national ecclesiastical abuse commission further powers. In the process, they appointed lawyer Ana Maria Celis Brunet as its new head. The previous chairman, Bishop Gonzalez, was controversial among abuse victims.

Pope Francis had received Brunet at the Vatican last week. He also praised the Chilean Bishops' Conference for its recent steps in the abuse scandal. The bishops' resolutions were "realistic and concrete," the pope praised in a handwritten letter to the conference president, Bishop Santiago Silva. He expressed certainty that the decisions would be beneficial to the entire process, according to the letter published by the bishops' conference.

Francis calls for 'thorough new beginning'

Chilean bishops had agreed on several points during their five-day special meeting. This includes the obligation for each bishop to cooperate with the prosecutor's office. Investigations into sexual misconduct to be made public in future.

Pope Francis, against the backdrop of the scandal, had demanded a thoroughgoing new start in Chile's church in a letter at the end of May. In the letter, he accused the bishops of promoting a "culture of abuse" and a "system of cover-up".

Several resignations

The abuse scandal in Chile has been making headlines for months. The focus is on Fernando Karadima, now 88, a priest who was convicted of sexual offenses in 2011. Several bishops emerged from his circle, including Juan Barros of Osorno, who is accused by victims of Karadima of complicity.

Pope Francis had sent a special envoy to Chile to clarify the allegations and summoned the entire national bishops' conference to the Vatican. Meanwhile, Francis accepted four other bishops' resignations in addition to Barros' resignation.

The so-called blue watchdogs have saved their youth by deducting vampary matter from their companions

Already many years ago astronomers has noticed a certain type of star, which it was not allowed to give: the so-called "Blue watchlet" find usual in clusters of the same as the same time created at the same time (in May, a renewed evaluation of alter pictures of the space telescope Hubble showed that even in the center of the milk strain a few of them "Life"To). They are brighter and their spectrum is blue than that of their neighbors, so they work under their siblings like later born babies, just watchful.

Artistic representation of the emergence of a blue watchlect: The actually smaller star withdraws the ages and coarse red huge matter, thus growing itself and becomes apparently young.

Because they can, one analyzes their physical data, not be born at the same time – otherwise they had to be removed from the main series of the Hertzprung-Russel chart and developed to red giants. Because just the particularly heavy, bright stars of the main series move your powder (helium) first. Already in 1953, the US astronomer Allan Sandage has noticed when he constructed a Herrzprung-Russel diagram of the ball star M3.

Try this contradiction to explain two different theories. On the one hand, the blue watchlier could be created by the collision of two stars. Binary and especially threesome systems are particularly consistent because they give a better destination. The result is usually a gross blue star with a dwarf as a companion. In fact, observations show that the impossible sky objects have relatively often smaller companions.

However, the probability of such interbreeds decreases, the looser the members of the star cluster are grouped. A second, competitive theory therefore tries another explanation. Binary systems, in the star world quite frequently, usually consist of objects of different coarse. If a twin of parches is particularly rough, it takes the development to the red giant first.

In this process he expands strongly, his density decreases. That affects him fatal: If the two stars are close enough, he can now escape his neighbor alone through the gravitation material. The more about it over the other star, the stronger speeds the process. In the end we have a for his old unusual and rough star in front of us, who must be kept because of his properties of the astronomers for young. He is again accompanied by a dwarf.

The survey of the companions

Since the result in both cases is the same – age star guy in his second youth, which is circle from a blond asterisk – alone the observation of women’s dwarfs is not enough to clear the true origin of the blue watchlier. The astronomers Aaron Geller and Robert Mathieu from the University of Wisconsin have therefore greeted something more accurately – in the science magazine Nature Report from your findings. If the old guy did not betray nothing, one sometimes comes through the question of his companions to the goal – the researchers have considered the mass distribution of the senior dwarfs, which circle the blue watchlear.

As a study object, the open star cluster NGC 188 served in the constellation Kepheus, which is 6.4 billion years old and consists of around 5,000 members. Two observations are interesting: On the one hand, most of the considered systems have very short circulation times. On the other hand, the senior dwarfs observed here are very easy with less than a sunbathing. Both facts can, which are the researchers, serve well as a distinguishing criterion: The few blue watches created by a collision slowly turn with their relatively heavy companion slowly around the center of gravity, while the stars rejuvenated by vampirism stars their light companions quickly around themselves.

In the view of the Federal Constitutional Court, the ruling of the Human Rights Court on subsequent preventive detention does not force the automatic release of affected offenders. In each individual case, an impact assessment must be made between the liberty interest of the person concerned and the security interest of the general public.

The urgent application of a sex offender convicted of attempted rape and murder in 1990, who demanded his immediate release, was rejected. In August 2009, the Baden-Baden Regional Court ordered that Winterkorn be placed in preventive detention because he was still "highly" dangerous.In his urgent application, the man had referred to the ruling ied on 17. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ied a legally binding ruling on the matter on December 12, 2009. The ECtHR in Strasbourg had ruled that preventive detention should not have been extended retroactively against a felon from Hesse who was sentenced in 1986. Germany had thus violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The Hessian offender had been awarded 50,000 euros in damages.It has since been disputed whether the ECtHR ruling has a direct binding effect in Germany and to what extent further offenders affected must now be released. In May, the court had rejected the immediate release of a criminal from Rhineland-Palatinate who had been in preventive detention for more than ten years.In a decision published in June, the Federal Court of Justice had spoken of a "new legal situation" following the Strasbourg ruling. The decisions of the ECHR were to be "taken into account in the interpretation of domestic German law," the decision of 12. May. In it, the Federal Court of Justice had ordered that a 61-year-old felon be released with immediate effect from a preventive detention ordered retroactively at Saarbrucken Prison.The Federal Prison Court now emphasized that the legal questions "raised by the ECtHR ruling are to be clarified in the main proceedings". The decision on the urgent appeal is expected to be ied in the fall, as a court spokeswoman said.The impact assessment necessary for an urgent application leads in the present case to the result that an immediate release of the complainant is "not required". The court emphasized that the district court had comprehensibly shown, on the basis of two psychiatric reports, that the complainant had a propensity to commit serious sexual offenses and would be highly likely to commit such acts if released. "In view of the particular seriousness of the threatened criminal acts, the security interest of the general public outweighs the interest of the complainant in regaining his personal freedom," the Verfangsgericht emphasized.

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