“François, I don’t want to overwhelm him. I don’t believe in its version. What do you want me to tell you? I think people who wanted to know knew. There is no worse deaf than the one who does not want to hear. He may have written a book with François Bayrou, saying he was … Read more
The case continues to untie languages to the chagrin of François Bayrou. Her eldest daughter, Hélène will give her testimony to the book ” Betharram’s silence “, Which will be published on April 24 written by journalist Clémence Badault and Alain Esquerre, the alert launcher of the case and founder of the collective of Betharram … Read more
We can analyze what has been revealed in the Notre-Dame de Betharram establishment as in some other Catholic establishments such as a kind of archaism: ill-treatment from obsolete and disappearance conceptions and practices. From there to say that it is Catholic education or even religion which are in themselves carrying a retrograde vision which authorizes … Read more
Renaud Fabier is one of the few former students of Saint-François-Xavier (SFX) in Ustaritz, in the Basque Country, to accept to testify with an overdue face. This 58 -year -old Biarritz resident should also be one of the very first to file a complaint in this new case of suspicions of violence and sexual violence, … Read more
A release of speech that seems unstoppable. Since the Bétharram case, several former students from other Catholic establishments, especially in the Southwest, go up in turn to the niche to denounce educational abuses, encouraging violence on the part of supervisors, as well as sexual abuses which would also have been committed. One of the last … Read more
Change of policy for Catholic education, after revelations on violence in establishments like Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram. “The time when Catholic education as other institutions sought to defend the institution rather than the person is over,” said the secretary general of Catholic education on Saturday in Toulouse, Philippe Delorme, at the opening of the national days of the … Read more
“Shame”, “compassion”, “suffering” … the will that this “can no longer happen again”. The bishop of Bayonne engaged this Thursday to a convinced repentance exercise in front of the press, after Bétharram affairs and more recently Saint-François-Xavier d’Ustaritz. Accompanied by Father Laurent Bacho, responsible for the listening unit of the Congregation of Betharram Fathers, he … Read more
The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the control of violence in schools is decided to shed light on the dysfunctions which allowed systemic violence to continue for decades in certain establishments. “Never again Betharram” Launched the president of the Cultural Affairs Committee, the socialist Fatiha Keloua-Hachi, during a press conference presenting the work that will … Read more
The cross : When you created, in 2023, the collective of victims of Betharram, did you expect the scale that this case took? Alain Esquerre: Absolutely not. I am completely overwhelmed by the importance of this phenomenon. Despite what I have suffered and seen myself, I still discover the perversity of priests and laity who … Read more
The collective of victims of violence suffered within Notre-Dame de Bétharram expressed Tuesday, March 4 of his “Immense relief”while regretting a late mea-culpa and “Forced”after the congregation which has long directed the Catholic establishment recognized its ” responsibility “. “It is already an immense relief because for fifteen months, we have been fighting against this … Read more