François Bayrou says that the Jospin authorities was conscious of violence | EUROtoday

François Bayrou assured, Tuesday, February 18, earlier than the National Assembly, to not be ” Never “ intervened, “Neither near nor far”with investigators or justice within the case of sexual assaults which happened in a Catholic institution in Béarn. “I didn’t know anything about this affair, I was not associated with anything”he insisted, recalling that the‘” integrity ” of the Justice of the Peace answerable for the case prohibited him from sharing parts of the file.

The Pau prosecutor’s workplace has been finishing up the investigation for 100 complaints for alleged violence, sexual assaults and rapes dedicated on the College-Lycée-Lycée in Bétharram, within the Pyrénées-Atlantiques for a yr within the years. 1970 and 1990. The head of presidency, from the area, has educated a number of of his youngsters on this establishment, and his spouse taught catechism there.

Arrested as soon as once more on the topic within the hemicycle, after being put beneath stress by the left final week, the Prime Minister additionally stated that the Attorney General had “Hold on four times, in the year 1998”the Ministry of Justice, whose holder was within the time Elisabeth Guigou, inside the socialist authorities of Lionel Jospin.

Three reviews between 1998 and 2000

According to paperwork that the Agency France-Presse was capable of receive, three reviews written between 1998 and 2000, addressed to Elisabeth Guigou, warned a doable large-scale affair inside the Catholic institution of Notre-Dame de Betharram .

A primary report of the Attorney General on the Pau Court of Appeal was carried out on June 15, 1998. On that date, Mr. Bayrou has not been Minister of National Education for a yr and Claude Allègre succeeded him on rue de Grenelle. Pau prosecutor, Dominique Rousseau, additionally referring to a phone dialog of May 26, 1998 on the identical topic, written to the Keeper of the Seals to elucidate the information that led to the indictment and imprisonment of the Former director of the institution, Father Carricart. The latter was accused of repeated sexual assault and rape by a former resident. “As it stands, the information focused only on the facts denounced by one person, but the complainant spoke of other facts likely to have been committed by teachers, religious, on various students”notes the Justice of the Peace, which specifies that “The information will have to verify what it is”. The prosecutor justifies this report by the regional renown of the institution, and “Emotion” aroused by the imprisonment of its former director.

The mail was adopted by one other, on December 23, 1998, within the type of a stage level, saying {that a} “Commission Rogatité is underway to hear many former students of the establishment”.

Then, on February 8, 2000, the prosecutor took the pen once more, a couple of days after Father Carricart’s suicide in Rome, implicated by one other former pupil. In this letter, he is because of “Reporting the latest developments in this procedure, which are likely to give it a certain local, even national media impact”.

In the hemicycle, François Bayrou has additionally deemed unimaginable that the Minister of National Education on the time, Claude Allègre, and the Minister of School Education, Ségolène Royal, weren’t “Awanted” of a “As important reporting”. “If I didn’t know, others knew”he insisted. The former minister was fast to react. In a message posted on X on Tuesday afternoon, Ségolène Royal says he “Scandalized by PM’s attacks [premier ministre]here are my instructions given in August 1997 to remove the law of silence and protect children. I plan an action in slanderous denunciation. »»

Assumption of victims

“What was executed after the general public prosecutor’s reviews to be undertaken by the procedures [de protection des victimes] What do you advocate? “, launched Mr. Bayrou in the hemicycle, defending for his part having “Asked an inspection” In the establishment when he was still minister in 1996.

Asked about the measures to be implemented to improve the care of victims, François Bayrou defended the need for‘”Improve early monitoring, [d’]Improve prevention “. “And we will reassure the victims that, if the acts that traumatized them are prescribed, nevertheless they aren’t with out rights”he added, assuring that ” The civil process could make it doable to reply to trauma ”.

“If you are looking for responsibilities and [à] Knowing what happened in this case is not those who were not responsibilities that day that you have to ask questions, but to those who were at the time “, insisted the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, within the gallery.

“Mr. Bayrou served us [s]has fourth version of the facts “ In one week, deplored the deputy (La France Insoumise) of Val-d’Oise Paul Vannier, on BFM-TV. “He is a multi -wrist liar”,, “Each of his new statements reveals the lie of the previous ones”he denounced, calling once more to the resignation of the top of presidency.