Before the fee of inquiry, the account of the pressures suffered by the professor who wished to interrupt the omerta | EUROtoday

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The former math teacher Françoise Gullung is heard by the parliamentary committee, within the framework of the Betharram case, in Paris, on March 26, 2025.

Of all of the workers of the Notre-Dame de Bétharram establishment, Françoise Gullung is the one one to have tried to alert the authorities in order that violence in opposition to youngsters cease. This professor of arithmetic, now retired, taught within the non-public institution below contract of Béarn, from 1994 to 1996. The account which it delivered from these two years, Wednesday, March 26, earlier than the parliamentary fee of inquiry on the strategies of the state management of violence in academic institutions, testifies to the ability of the omerta which surrounded the institution, and what the actors of this technique had been able to deploying in order that it isn’t.

Françoise Gallung has twenty years of instructing behind her, when she arrived at Notre-Dame de Bétharram in September 1994. Systemic bodily violence, at this time on the coronary heart of a sprawling authorized file, wasted no time in profitable in her every day as a professor. Before the Commission, she notably reported, as she has already carried out within the press, this assembly in a hall with Elisabeth Bayrou, who then taught catechism in Betharram, whereas, behind a door, resounded the cries of a kid struck by an grownup.

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