What occurred to Notre-Dame de Betharram? Understand in three minutes | EUROtoday

Slaps, kicks, hair torn off, but in addition youngsters locked up total nights on the steps of the institution by detrimental temperatures … At least 100 former college students of Notre-Dame de Bétharram, enrolled between the Nineteen Fifties and 2010s, declare that they’ve undergone mistreatment and sexual violence throughout their education on this non-public Catholic institution famend for his training ” ».

In addition to physical and psychological violence, there are many stories of sexual violence committed by priests and supervisors. The revelation of these testimonies led the deputies to set up a commission of inquiry into violence in schools, who heard, Thursday, March 20, the spokesman for the victims of Notre-Dame de Bétharram, Alain Esquerre.

In this video, we return to the testimonies of former students of the boarding school of Notre-Dame de Bétharram, as well as on the links established between the establishment and the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, who denies having knowledge of such actions.

To find out more about the chronology of facts, first complaints and reports to the launch of the commission of inquiry, you will find below a complete summary of the case.