French PM to testify on child abuse scandal

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…

French PM digs in heels during hearing on child abuse scandal

François Bayrou survived the five-hour grilling without any major slip-ups, but the affair isn’t going away.

France's Prime Minister is under pressure because he is not supposed to have reacted to evidence of violence and abuse in a boarding school during his time as Minister of Education.

The political stability of France has been mortgaged to the post of François Bayrou, head of government, his wife and his eldest daughter, in the biggest scandal of sexual violence and paedophilia in the history of France, following the denunciations of 200 victims against the Notre-Dame de Bétharram institute, in a tiny town of 800 inhabitants, very close to Pau (79,000 inhabitants), political fiefdom of the prime minister.In the early hours of…

The Prime Minister has been questioned since 5 p.m. by the National Assembly's commission of inquiry to shed light on the case of physical and sexual violence at the Collège-lycée Notre-Dame de Bétharram. François Bayrou is accused of having been aware of the actions denounced today by former students of the Belarusian institution, where several of his children have been educated, but of having done nothing to denounce or stop the situation. He …

France’s premier faces questions from an inquiry on a Catholic school abuse scandal

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