Damien S. had an a priori honorable career. Implicated for around a hundred complaints, around thirty of which concerns facts of sexual assault and rape, this former supervisor of Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram and central figure in the case, now 69 years old, was able to climb the ladder of the private education system while escaping justice. The alleged attacker is now retired, and the facts alleged against him are prescribed. Thanks to exclusive documents of the legal proceedings of the late 1990s, consulted in collaboration with the magazine of France 2 “additional investigation”, The world was able to trace part of its route.
Little is known about Damien S.’s youth, only that he was born in Versailles on July 28, 1955 and that he has two brothers. His track was then lost until 1975, the date on which he arrived in Béarn and joined as a simple supervisor the college and Catholic high school of Lestelle-Bétharram (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). He was recruited at the time by the head of the establishment, Xavier Destizon, and rubbed shoulders with Pierre Silviet-Carricart-indicted for rape in 1998-, who was at the time the director of studies. After his military service, which he carried out in 1978, Damien S. slowly climbs the ladder and became deputy director, then responsible for the boarding school, a function he cumulates with that of general supervisor.
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