Their teachers beat them, and no one helped. Now they’re seeking justice.

Their teachers beat them, and no one helped. Now they’re seeking justice.

The abuse at the Bétharram school has shocked the French public. Survivors of the violence are reclaiming their agency to try to fix the problem.

On the eve of François Bayrou's hearing by a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Betharram case, the Ecologists unveiled on Tuesday 13 May their "emergency plan to protect children from violence". A response to a collective "denial".

For three months, François Bayrou denied that he had been informed of the physical and sexual violence in Betharram. Yet he was the most powerful politician locally. Before his audition...

The Prime Minister is heard in the National Assembly on Wednesday, 14 May, by the committee of inquiry into violence in schools, a deadline for which he has prepared himself, in order to erase the contradictions and lies of the last few months and finally get out of denial.

Did he know or not? Did he intervene or not? Accused of having lied in the case of the violence in Notre-Dame de Bétharram, François Bayrou is heard on Wednesday by the parliamentary commission of inquiry born of the scandal. The Prime Minister intends to prove that the criticisms against him are false.

The Prime Minister will be heard Wednesday in the National Assembly by the commission of inquiry on "the modalities of State control of violence in schools".