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Mandated by L'Arche International in 2020, the Multidisciplinary Study Commission published a 900-page report on the phenomena of psychological control and sexual abuse relating to Thomas Philippe and Jean Vanier. This study confirms Jean Vanier's adherence to the deviant doctrines of his spiritual father, Father Thomas Philippe, and to the abusive practices related to them. It details the circumstances of the founding of L'Arche in 1964 and highlights the existence of a sectarian core formed around Father Thomas and Jean Vanier. 25 adult women, single, married or consecrated, without disabilities, were thus identified for having experienced, at some point in their relationship with Jean Vanier, a situation involving a sexual act or an intimate gesture between 1952 and 2019. In this exceptional interview, Stephan Posner, international manager of l'Arche, details the content of this study, its implications - particularly with regard to the teachings of Jean Vanier - and the measures taken by l'Arche International towards the victims, in its internal procedures for protecting people, and in the painful rereading of its history.