Bétharram school scandal: Independent commission investigates sexual abuse by priests abroad

Bétharram school scandal: Independent commission investigates sexual abuse by priests abroad

One of the priests implicated in the scandal of violence and sexual assaults at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram Catholic school in the Pyrénées spent several years in Côte d'Ivoire, running a school from 1973 to 1979.

The Prime Minister is accused of having closed his eyes to the physical and sexual assaults committed in the Catholic institution. He assures him that he has "never been informed." We went to the Bearnais to find out what they think.

Paris, 27 Apr 2025 (AFP) – The National Secretary and the Chief of Deputies Ecologists Marine Tondelier and Cyrielle Chatelain estimated on Sunday that François Bayrou had perjured himself before the National Assembly by assuring that she had no knowledge of the Betharram case. The daughter of the current Prime Minister testified Friday that she and her father had mentioned [...]

Marine Tondelier and Cyrielle Chatelain believe that François Bayrou perjured himself before the National Assembly by assuring that he had not known anything about the Betharram affair, which his daughter denies The Secretary

François Bayrou Faces Political Survival Battle Amid Historic Catholic School Abuse Scandal - https://eutoday.net

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…