US EditionFrench PM under pressure after daughter reveals she was abused at school
- Hélène Perlant, daughter of France's Prime Minister, revealed she suffered abuse at a Catholic boarding school.
- Her testimony fuels fresh accusations that her father, François Bayrou, knew of systemic abuse allegations at the school.
- Clergy at Notre-Dame de Bétharram school in the Pyrenees allegedly committed physical, sexual, and psychological abuse from the 1950s.
- Judge Christian Mirande confirmed discussing allegations with Bayrou in 1998, contradicting Bayrou's repeated denials.
- This growing scandal places pressure on Bayrou, scheduled to appear before a parliamentary inquiry on May 14.
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The Catholic Church is under the spotlight of the media in recent months. Not because of the rise of conversions and baptisms, but under the prism of the Betharram affair, the alleged sexual abuse of Abbé Peter or to denounce his visibility in the public space. In his book the Church Outlaw?, the associate professor of the history of law and institutions at the University of Toulouse Cyrille Dounot compiles the legal threats that hover like a sw…
The Betharram affair shakes the government and weakens Prime Minister François Bayrou. Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, specialist in political communication, analyses for La Défêche du Midi the mistakes...
Did the Prime Minister know more than he claimed about what was happening at Notre-Dame de Bétharram? His daughter's testimony, Hélène Perlant, contradicted his version.
François Bayrou's daughter confirmed that his father had met in 1998 the judge charged with investigating a rape in Betharram to discuss the case, an episode that the Prime Minister first denied before changing his version. ...
The MPs will be hearing the Prime Minister on 14 May. The aim is to shed light on what he knew about the acts of violence.
On Mediapart, Hélène Perlant, the daughter of the Prime Minister, assured that her father had gone to the home of Judge Christian Mirande to talk about the rape investigation against the ex-director of...
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