The inspection of Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram, in 1996, nonetheless in query | EUROtoday

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The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, during his hearing by the commission of inquiry into violence in schools in the National Assembly, in Paris, on May 14, 2025.

The interrogation of François Bayrou, of which a number of youngsters have been educated in Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram (Lestelle-Bétharram, Pyrénées-Atlantiques), by the members of the Commission of Parliamentary Inquiry on Violence in School, May 14, underlined the grey areas of the inspection which he diligent in 1996 whereas he was Minister of National Education (1993-1997).

Since the beginning of this case, having commanded this investigation to the Bordeaux rectorate following a grievance from a pupil’s mother or father has been brandished by François Bayrou as proof that he has reacted. But the circumstances of this inspection, in addition to the conclusions which have been drawn from it, proceed to query the corapporters of the Commission, Violette Spillebout (Renaissance, Nord) and Paul Vannier (La France Insoumise, Val-d’Oise). During the listening to of May 14, they sought to grasp how the rectorate of Bordeaux and, subsequently, the minister himself had been capable of miss the violence.

Inspector Camille Latrubesse, now nonagenarian, defined a couple of weeks earlier earlier than the Commission that he was despatched alone to this institution that he didn’t know, including that he had been summoned by the rector on Thursday to render his report on Monday. He spent solely someday there, in April 1996. It was the primary time that he managed a non-public institution.

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