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The collective of former students victims of Notre-Dame de Bétharram announces the filing of 17 new complaints in this case. Nevertheless, (Photo of the private. Nevertheless, Catholic school Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram)
Justice – The number of complaints against the Béarnais Catholic establishment will climb to 217. Similarly, The collective of former students victims of Notre -Dame de Betharram announced Tuesday that 17 new complaints will be filed in this sprawling case. Meanwhile, this Wednesday, July 23 with the Pau public prosecutor.
In a press release notably consulted by The Parisian et France dozen new complaints filed this 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The collective explains that these additional complaints, for acts committed between 1961 and 1993, concern “Physical violence”of the “Sexual violence” and “Rape”.
Several of them target Father Silviet-Carricart, underlines The Parisian. The latter had been indicted in 1988 for alleged sex and sexual assaults committed the same year.
“When I was in Betharram. I vomited bile” – Dozen new complaints filed this
Didier Carrère-Laas, former student of Notre-Dame de Bétharram, is among the victims who decided to file a complaint. He testifies to France 3 of painful memories which returned to him since the media coverage of the case: “When I was in Betharram. I vomited bile on Sunday before returning. I still vomit. »»
Affirming to have been the victim of sexual assault. and probably rape, during his course in the school establishment, Didier Carrère-Laas recounts several traumatic episodes, when he was only 11 years dozen new complaints filed this old. “One day, Father Carricart told me that if I bandaged at night, I could come and see him […]. I remember his breath ”, he recalls. The general supervisor Damien Saget would have “ beaten up on a staircase, for nothing ”.
According to the figures obtained by The Parisian. the father Carricart is “Visited by 32 complaints, including 27 for sexual assault and rape”. Damien Saget is at the heart of “105 complaints including 34 for sexual assault and rape”.
The Bétharram affair is considered one of the greatest scandals of pedocrime in the history of French education. with testimonies covering the decades of 1950 to the 2000s, recalls The world. François Bayrou’s responsibility is questioned in this case. as a former Minister of Education and father of one of the victims.
A parliamentary report on the violence committed on children at dozen new complaints filed this school considers that in the absence of actions that François Bayrou had the means to initiate. “These physical and sexual violence on Betharram students have persisted for years”.
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