Affaire Bétharram : sous serment, François Bayrou nie de nouveau avoir eu connaissance des abus
Le Premier ministre français François Bayrou a répondu mercredi soir aux questions de la commission parlementaire "Bétharram" pendant cinq heures et demie.
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Le Premier ministre français François Bayrou a répondu mercredi soir aux questions de la commission parlementaire "Bétharram" pendant cinq heures et demie.
LIRE L’ARTICLE : http://fr.euronews.com/2025/05/15/affaire-betharram-sous-serment-francois-bayrou-nie-de-nouveau-avoir-eu-connaissance-des-ab
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00:00French Prime Minister François Beyrou faced one of his most politically sensitive moments yet on Wednesday evening,
00:08testifying under oath before a parliamentary committee examining what he knew or didn't know about decades of abuse at a Catholic school in southwestern France.
00:20The committee is investigating Beyrou's potential knowledge of allegations at the Notre-Dame-de-Betarram school where 200 complaints of sexual and physical abuse have been filed since February last year.
00:36Beyrou swore that he knew nothing about the violence and even denounced the political instrumentalization of the affair.
00:44He also claimed to have learned of the allegations through the press and denied ever having any sort of insider information.
00:54Despite it being a very personal issue for the Prime Minister, this Catholic school is the same school where his wife once taught and that his children also attended years ago.
01:05The political bombshell dropped earlier this year after media reports suggested that Beyrou may have known about the abuse as early as the 1990s and tried to cover it up back when he was the French Minister of Education.
01:22Another major turning point of the scandal, last month his own daughter came out and said that she was beaten by a priest from that same school when she was 14 years old.
01:34She said that she never told her father about the abuse.
01:39And while Beyrou may have survived multiple no-confidence votes and a fractured parliament since his appointment last December, the Notre-Dame-de-Betarram affair may prove to be harder to outrun.