He promises to put them online. To show that the charges against him “are scandalously inaccurate”, François Bayrou announced this Tuesday that he was going to make public all the documents he produced before the commission of inquiry into physical and sexual violence Make the children, born from the scandal of Betharram.
“For this controversy to be closed, I intend, within 48 hours, to put online all the documents (…) which will show that these accusations are scandalously inaccurate and which, I hope, will allow all those who are interested to have a loyal opinion,” said the Prime Minister before the National Assembly, during the questions to the government.
A “certain conception of discipline”
He responded to the deputy for rebellious France Sarah Legrain, who questioned himur a document from the college-lycée Bétharram According to which a supervisor convicted of violence on a student in 1996 was still part of the establishment in 1997-1998.
This document contradicts a letter from the director of the time, Cited by François Bayrou during his hearingwho assures that he had been dismissed.
The Prime Minister wanted to quote this letter on Tuesday, dated November 5, 1996, of which AFP obtained a copy, in which the director of the time of Betharram tells the inspector: “I have just dismissed, even if it may have benefits, the supervisor with a certain conception of discipline. »
Political “instrumentalization”, according to François Bayrou
In this file which has stuck to him for several months, François Bayrou who has educated several of his children in this Catholic establishment in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques is notably accused by the left of having been aware in the past, Acts denounced todayand of having intervened in a judicial case involving a religious of Betharram accused of rape.
The Prime Minister has firmly denied several times, further denouncing a political “instrumentalization” on May 14. On Tuesday, he considered that LFI had “misguided” the commission of inquiry “of his vocation and his subject”, and again accused a key witness of the Betharram case, Françoise Gullung, of “fabrication”, while the latter, former teacher of Betharram, considers that it is the Prime Minister who makes “error”.
“I know that it bothers you,” added François Bayrou in the hubbub, while the deputy LFI Ségolène Amiot called him “liar”.
