A lawyer asks for the opening of a legal investigation for “hindrance to justice” in opposition to François Bayrou | EUROtoday

The Betharram case continues to proceed François Bayrou. A lawyer requested on Monday, February 17, the opening of an investigation for “Hopping justice” In the rape case that occurred in 1998 within the Catholic Collège-Lycée of Lestelle-Bétharram, within the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

This request for a legal investigation, which additionally targets alleged information of “Crime concealment”was deposited on Monday with the Pau General Prosecutor’s Office by M^e Jean-François Blanco. In the journal “Seven to eight” broadcast on Sunday on TF1, the gendarme accountable for the investigation into Father Pierre Silviet-Carricart, ex-director of the establishment accused of rape in 1998, spoke of a “Intervention” by François Bayrou.

At the time of the suspect’s indictment, the choose answerable for the file would have declared to him: “The Attorney General asks to see the file, Mr. Bayrou intervened with him. »» For m^e Blanco, also elected opposition (EELV) in Pau, city whose Prime Minister remained mayor, these “Very serious accusations” justify his “Request for an investigation into the investigation, to know who did what, and how Mr. Bayrou would have intervened with the justice system”.

The Bétharram college is at the heart of a vast investigation into violence, sexual assault and rape denounced by more than a hundred complainants. The Pau prosecutor’s office has been investigating for a year in this case dating back to the 1970s and running until the 1990s.

The scandal splashes the Prime Minister, several of whom were enrolled in this institution, where his wife taught catechism. For ten days, implicated by surveys of Mediapart, of World And the local press, relayed by the left, he denies having known sexual violence when he officiated as Minister of Education in the 1990s.

“We cannot remain unanswered, François Bayrou must be summoned to explain himself”explained, at the France-Presse (AFP) agency, M^e Jean-François Blanco, who was also, in 1996, the lawyer for the first pupil of this Catholic establishment to have filed a complaint for a violent slap of a supervisor.

“There has never been an intervention on my part,” says Bayrou

“There has never been an intervention on my part, with anyone, neither on this case, nor on any other”reacted François Bayrou to the newspaper South West, adding that his version was “Confirmed” by the victim’s lawyer and the former investigating judge. “I did not know this attorney general who died, I am told, more than twenty years ago”he continued.

“All this is Fake News, Pure and simple fantasies, to destroy. We all experienced the Baudis affair – he left the skin there ”added the Prime Minister, in reference to the previous mayor of Toulouse, Dominique Baudis, wrongly implicated, in 2003, in a case linked to the serial killer Patrice Alègre – Mr. Baudis died in April 2014 from lung most cancers.

The judge in charge of the rape file in 1998 in Betharram, said on several occasions that he had spoken of the case at the time, with the current head of government. “François Bayrou made the step to come and see me when the priest was in detention. He was worried about his son educated in Betharram. He said he couldn’t believe that Father Carricart had done what was criticized for him ”declared Christian Mirande to The Republic of the Pyrenees.

Asked about possible pressures, he added having “Had to reply many questions (…), particularly on the a part of the Attorney General “ of the time, adding that “They had been a little bit disguised requests”. But the former judge assured TF1 that François Bayrou, “In no case”hadn’t had him “Asked to average [s]selections “. “I actually do not keep in mind that I used to be instructed that Mr. Bayrou had intervened”he completes.

Saturday in Pau, after meeting people victims of Betharram, the Prime Minister said that the judge, his neighbor at Bordères where he lives, told him about the rape complaint in 1998, without himself seeking a meeting . And for Mr. Bayrou, their conversation took place after the release of the religious, not before.

The request for investigation of^e Blanco also relates to the conditions of “Leak” Father Carricart who, released under judicial supervision eight days after his indictment, had joined Rome, where he committed suicide in 2000.

Inspection of the advanced establishment

While Bétharram is at the center of attention, the Bordeaux rectorate advanced its inspection of the establishment at the week of March 17, responding to a request from the Ministry of Education in the face of the scandal surrounding this establishment under contract.

“We take attachment with the director of the institution, to tell him of the management calendar, and with the diocesan director”announced, Monday, February 17 in the evening to AFP, the rectorate communication service.

“This method is registered within the Academy’s management plan, merely superior on the week of March 17, as requested by the ministry to have components on the present operation of this institution”he added. School holidays in the Bordeaux Academy, of which the Pyrénées-Atlantiques note, begin on Saturday and will end on March 9.

The Ministry of National Education asked the rectorate on Friday, “To advance its management operations” in the establishment.