Destabilized by the Betharram case, François Bayrou on the threshold of a decisive new week | EUROtoday

Faced with controversy, François Bayrou opts for disaster communication. The Prime Minister is anticipated, Saturday, February 15, on the finish of the morning, on the city corridor of Pau, which he nonetheless directs, to fulfill the affiliation of victims of violence and sexual assaults of the college-lycée Notre-Dame de Betharram (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).

The case destabilizes the pinnacle of presidency, below the load of the intense accusations formulated towards him after investigations of Mediapartof World and the native press. François Bayrou is suspected of getting ignored the mistreatment and abuses occurring on this Catholic institution, frequented by his kids and wherein his spouse taught catechism, whereas he was Minister of National Education (1993-1997). The Béarnaise establishment is on the coronary heart of a judicial inquiry diligent by the Pau prosecution, after greater than 100 complaints filed by victims, for info having taken place between the Nineteen Sixties and 2010.

The Betharram case has slipped from the judicial floor to the political sphere. The set off is none apart from the response made by the Prime Minister to nationwide illustration throughout questions of inquiries to the federal government. “I obviously never, never, was informed of anything in terms of violence, a fortiori of sexual violence”, Bayrou mentioned on Tuesday earlier than the deputies.

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