Lycée Notre-Dame de Garaison: more than 30 testimonies of victims were brought before the courts

After the Betharram case, the speech was released for other former students, including a private boarding school in the Hautes-Pyrénées, where Jean Castex was educated. Physical, sexual and psychological violence was denounced, dating back to the 1950s.

The information was known since March 19th. The group of victims of the Catholic institution Notre-Dame de Garaison will present, this Wednesday, in the court of Tarbes, some thirty testimonies, denouncing physical and sexual violence. Submissions of complaints could follow.

On Wednesday, 26 March, the prosecutor of the Republic of Tarbes announced that he had received dozens of testimonies denouncing aggravated violence, sexual assault and rape in the private Catholic institution.

The group of victims of Notre-Dame de Garaison will testify this Wednesday, 35 testimonies of former students denouncing physical and sexual violence in the institution.

After the Betharram affair, the Congregation Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd is on the saddle. Founded in 1835 to "re-educate difficult girls" and now established in 74 countries, it is accused by former residents of "forced labour", "medical rapes" or repeated humiliations. They wrote to François Bayrou who did not reply to them to this day. Founded in Angers in 1835 by the nun Marie Euphrasie Pelletier to "re-educate difficult girls" …

A motion was adopted unanimously this Friday afternoon in the Parliament of Navarre The shock of the Betharram case, unsurprisingly, was also felt until the Parliament of Navarre.