US EditionFrench PM to testify on child abuse scandal
- French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is set to testify before a parliamentary committee on claims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school.
- Accusations claim that as education minister, Bayrou knew of abuse at the Notre-Dame de Betharram school in the 1990s.
- Bayrou described the committee appearance as an "opportunity to prove that all this was false."
- A Socialist lawmaker suggested Bayrou was "politically finished.
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CHRONIQUE. One defends his balance sheet, the other honors him, but the two heads of the executive spent their energy this week strangely.
The stories of more than 200 victims of all kinds of abuse from the 1950s to 2004 were leaked to the public in 2023.
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French lawmakers divided over PM child abuse hearing
French politicians were divided on Thursday over the marathon hearing of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who was grilled by lawmakers about claims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school.
Under oath, French PM Bayrou denies covering up sexual abuse at Catholic school
In testimony to a parliamentary committee hearing, French Prime Minister François Bayrou continued to deny he knew of sexual abuse allegations at a Catholic school in the Pyrenees when he served as education minister in the 1990s.
French Prime Minister Defiant in School Sexual Violence Inquiry
Facing a parliamentary inquiry and testifying under oath on Wednesday, François Bayrou, the embattled French prime minister, said he had never been personally informed of physical and sexual violence at a private Catholic school with which he had close ties in his region of southwest France. Since early last year, 200 legal complaints have been filed accusing priests and staff members at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram school of physical abuse, sexu…
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