French priest accused of sex crimes in Nunavut has died

National News - April 12, 2024


When Tanya Tungilik learned French priest Johannes Rivoire had died overnight, she screamed.

“My first reaction was anger,” said the daughter of Marius Tungilik, the first Inuk to file a complaint of child sexual abuse against Rivoire. “I was angry that Johannes Rivoire didn’t die in jail like he was supposed to.

“I went for a drive afterwards, stopped by the side of the road, and just screamed my lungs out and cried.”

Rivoire was a missionary Oblate priest for the Catholic Church in Nunavut for 30 years.

He served in three remote communities between 1963 and 1993, where five children alleged he sexually assaulted them.

But Rivoire, who denied the accusations, died in hospital in Lyon, France after a long illness.

He was 93.

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