Covid, mass without masks: two priests stop in Paris

PARIS. They will have to answer to earthly justice. According to information from 20 Minutes, the parish priest who celebrated an Easter mass in the Parisian church of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile without coronavirus precautions, as well as his vicar, were placed in custody this morning. They are, according to the suspicions, responsible for the mass celebrated without any precaution that aroused the firm condemnation of the government and the diocese of Paris itself as well as an avalanche of disconcerted reactions on social networks. Unveiled last Tuesday by the newspaper Le Parisien, the images of the ceremony, in the church full of faithful, including many elderly people, without masks and without distancing, prompted the Paris prosecutor to open an investigation for “endangering the life of others”.