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Pope's ex-envoy tried in Paris for sex assaults, without him

by John Leicester
| November 10, 2020 12:33 PM

PARIS (AP) — A sexual assault trial for the Vatican’s former ambassador to France went ahead without him Tuesday after he produced a doctor's note saying it was too dangerous for him to travel from Rome to Paris in the midst of France's resurgent coronavirus epidemic.

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