Child abuse scandal engulfs French prime minister

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French Prime Minister Franois was involved in a broad scandal over decades of physical violence and sexual abuse committed in a Catholic school in his own region of Pyrinis.

The crisis has been being created for several weeks, now more than 200 adults have come forward to talk about psychological terrorism, beating and rape that they were impressed by priests and teachers in Notre-Dem de Bathram schools from the 1950s to 2000s.

Some have been accused of learning about the problems as a prominent local politician at this time and later education minister. Bayerou Denied the knowledge of abuse.

However, this week this scandal deepened this week when his elder daughter Helen Parld (1) interviewed that he was also beaten by a school priest, though he emphasized that he never told her father. Several six children in Bayuru attended school and his wife taught some classes there.

The parliament then expressed skepticism about the lack of knowledge of air about the Boutherram case. In an interview to the investigator outlet media -Pepter on Wednesday, he said his father had met the investigating judge in the sixties of a school priest in the sixties.

“I don’t think [my father] Remember, but I was there in the evening that he returned from the judge Mirande, “he said. His father asked him at the time that if he thought that these allegations could be true, he added.

Judge Christian Mirand confirmed the meeting, while a bathram teacher and one student publicly stated that they had warned Bayeru about the problem.

Last year, as Prime Minister Michel Bernier did last year, they threatened to vote for any confidence that they threatened the statistics of opponents on the right and far left. In December, his long -time ally, Emanuel Macron, is on top of the thin ice because he is unable to pass the Budget of 2026 in the fragmented parliament.

He is due to answer the questions before the parliamentary investigation on May 14th.

“As a father, it stabbed me in the heart. It is almost unbearable,” Bayru told about learning his daughter’s experience. “I have never been notified about anything about violence [in the school]The “

Parld France said to Inter -Inter [other victims] – Another, one of others and the daughter of the Prime Minister.

He mentioned his experience in an interview with the Paris match, saying that a priest said that “a priest grabbed me to the hair, dragged me to the floor for several meters, then kicked me down.” The incident happened in front of dozens of people, he said, none of whom came under his help. “I soaked myself and stayed like this all night, damp and melted into a ball in my sleeping bag,” he added.

Like other countries, France The Catholic Church has been calculated in the case of complaining cover-ups. Recently, a priest who founded a major charity for the poor was published as the late Abbe Pierre Pedophil. Crimes have been accused for decades and investigations have shown that the leaders of the French Catholic Church were aware of his behavior, as were the Vatican.