Betharram case: François Bayrou will be heard by the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on 14 May

The book, which will appear on April 24, was co-authored by Alain Esquerre, the spokesperson for the collective of the victims of the school of Notre-Dame de Betharram.

The controversy over this Belarusian Catholic institution is far from over. A sensitive subject for the Prime Minister, at the confluence of private and political life.

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French Prime Minister François Bayrou will be heard by a parliamentary commission of inquiry, about the scandal of sexual assaults in the Catholic college-lycée Notre-Dame de Bétharram, announced on Thursday 10 April the commission. Former Minister of National Education at the time of the facts and reports, he is accused of having wanted to stifle the case. He claims that he was not aware of the scandal, while his wife was teaching there.

"Students' testimonies call into question the actions of two teachers" which "cannot be accepted", points out Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of National Education.

On Thursday, the commission interviewed the gendarmerie and the judge who tried in 1998 to investigate, despite the obstacles, rapes committed by a priest of the establishment. They delivered many details...