François Bayrou Faces Political Survival Battle Amid Historic Catholic School Abuse Scandal

Executives of the environmental party, Marine Tondelier and Cyrielle Chatelain accused the Prime Minister of perjury in front of the National Assembly. In mid-February, during several question sessions in the government, François Bayrou had assured that he had "never been informed" of the violence.

According to Marine Tondelier and Cyrielle Chatelain, François Bayrou lied under oath in the Betharram case, a serious offence punishable by five years' imprisonment.

François Bayrou Faces Political Survival Battle Amid Historic Catholic School Abuse Scandal

François Bayrou, France’s Prime Minister and longtime centrist heavyweight, is battling for his political life this week after a shocking abuse scandal linked to his home region has thrown his government into chaos. More than 200 former pupils from Notre-Dame de Bétharram, a prestigious Catholic school in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, as the Financial Times reports, have come forward with harrowing accounts of sexual, physical, and psychological abu…