Berlin (EFE).- The Munich prosecutor’s office reported today that it has shelved the investigation against the late Pope Benedict XVI for possible complicity in abuses in the Archbishopric of Munich and Freising as there were “sufficient suspicions” of criminal action “that, in if they had occurred, they would have already prescribed.
Chief prosecutor Hans Kornprobst stressed that the investigations did not reveal “sufficient suspicions of criminal action on the part of personnel managers” when referring specifically to Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich and Freising between 1977 and 1982, his successor, Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, and the then Vicar General, Gerhard Gruber.