The Minister of Education, Elisabeth Borne, announced on Thursday, April 10, the launch of an administrative investigation addressed to the private Catholic establishment Le Beau Rameau on Thursday, April 10, the current name of Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram, after the publication of the report of an inspection in March that highlighted several “fires”.
“Student’s testimonies question the actions of two teachers” that one cannot accept “, and” other elements “were” noted during the control carried out by the Rectorate “in the establishment in the heart of a scandal of violence over children for decades, he specially explained to the minister in an interview with the newspaper La Croix.
“The control focused on the current situation of the establishment and not on the previous events,” namely the sexual and physical violence that took place in the establishment for decades, said the minister.
“Following this report, I will dilute an administrative investigation of the general inspection” continues the noble of Elisabeth, emphasizing that the report of the control team carried out in March, in reaction to the scandal in Betharram, is accompanied “of a formal notification with an obligation of short -term compliance” at problematic points.
“Happy and humiliating comment”
Seven inspectors and a technical social services advisor were in March at the request of the Bordeaux Rector in the two institutions of the institution, which welcomes 500 students in the Pyrées-Atlantiques.
Its report, published on Thursday, reports several deficiencies that “must be corrected as quickly as possible,” especially in terms of child protection. In particular, he called “to establish an internal formal procedure to inform or worry information, known for all” for situations of violence.
It also informs testimonies of students who evoke “hurtful and humiliating comments” and “mockery in public”, “repeated and regular” by two teachers.
A series of auditions
Bétharram’s issue is ashamed of Prime Minister François Bayrou, who was Minister of Education between 1993 and 1997 and had several of his children educated in Betharram, while his wife gave catech classes. He is accused of the left of having lied about his knowledge of the facts, which, several times, has challenged.
This inspection report is published on the day of a series of hearings within the framework of an investigation commission on school control, with several testimonies that “contradict the point by point” the statements of the prime minister, according to the copillant of the Investigation Commission of Paul Vannier (LFI).
An academic inspection commanded in 1996 by the Rector of Bordeaux at that time, in reaction of the first revelations, had been carried out in a career in one day and had made possible rehabilitate the establishment.
Source: BFM TV
