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Archbishop Jean-Pierre Grallet O.F.M. in May 2013. / Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)CNA Newsroom, Nov 17, 2022 / 03:25 am (CNA).A retired French bishop is under investigation for what he called "inappropriate gestures" towards a woman several decades ago.Monsignor Jean-Pierre Grallet, archbishop emeritus of Strasbourg, said in a statement published Wednesday he deeply regretted making "inappropriate gestures [gestes déplacés] toward a young woman of legal age" in the late 1980s. The 81-year-old Franciscan religious said he had written to the woman in the summer of 2022, "to tell her that I had failed her and to ask her forgiveness."Grallet said he would now await the outcome of the canonical and civil investigations, and withdraw "from public speaking."His successor and current Archbishop of Strasbourg on Wednesday said he had been contacted by the victim in December 2021. "I reported the matter to the Strasbourg Pu

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