“Terror regime” in high school
Abuse scandal reaches France's premier
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For more than forty years, students are said to have been abused and abused in a well -known French boarding school. Three men are arrested. The institution is located in the constituency of Premier Bayrou. He must justify himself against allegations of covering up the conditions.
The police arrested three suspects in the abuse scandal at a Catholic boarding school in France, which also hits waves to the Paris government. The public prosecutor said that the men, born in 1931, 1955 and 1965 in 1955 and 1965, were accused of severe rape, severe sexual coercion and severe use of violence. The acts are said to have occurred between 1957 and 2004.
In the meantime, 134 former students have filed a complaint because they were physically abused and sexually abused in the well-known high school Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram. Media report a “terrorist regime” at school and a “Gulag in the Pyrenees”.
Rape allegation and severe abuse
Prime Minister François Bayrou defends himself against the accusation that grievances in the high school, where his wife also taught and visited some of his children, did not react as Minister of Education between 1993 and 1997.
In 1996 there was an advertisement against a school employee who beat a student half deaf, and in 1997 there was a complaint against the former school director for rape. The man then took his life.
The Prime Minister, who has also been Mayor of Pau for years and in whose constituency the school is located, is accused of having swept the scandal under the carpet at the time. Bayrou expressly denies this and does not want to have known about grievances at the school. A judge at the time and a police officer described the media that Bayrou asked her about the investigation at the time.
Does government ignore evidence of grievances?
In his part, the Prime Minister now accused the socialist government of ignoring several explicit information from the public prosecutor's office for serious grievances at school.
As the news agency AFP reported, which gave itself access to the references, there was talk of “a possible large affair”. However, investigations only got going on a large scale from 2024 after a former student founded a Facebook group and had filed more and more affected complaint.
