US Edition"Bétharram Was Not a School, It Was a Sect" – the Site of the French Catholic Church's Pedophile Scandal Is Being Closed
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The “Gulag of the Pyrenees” – that’s what the alumni called the Betharram school. For fifty years, hundreds of young people were sexually abused, physically and mentally abused in the Catholic boarding school. The case also has unpleasant political implications, and new laws may soon be passed because of it.
Targeted by more than 217 complaints of physical and sexual violence, the private institution Betharram, near Pau, will close its doors. Indeed, on 26 January 2026, the administrative closure of Notre-Dame de Bétharram was announced. As for the 167 college students and 10 interns still welcomed in the building, they should be welcomed by the "Beau-Rameau school group", explained Guillaume Prevost, secretary general of Catholic education, to Libé…
Following our investigation into the results of inspections carried out in private schools after the Betharram case, the Secretary-General of Catholic Education claims to want to sue Mediacités. It is a mistake to both target and anger.
The decision of the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Crimes (Civi) rendered its decision on Friday, 23 January. Mr Marguiraut announces that he will appeal.
On the day after the announcement of the closure of Notre-Dame de Bétharram, civil justice rejected the request for reparation of a former student in the name of the statute of limitations of events, it was reported that on Tuesday, January 27, the latter, recognized by the Congregation of the Fathers of Betharram as a victim of sexual assault, intends to appeal this judgment.
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