French PM to testify on child abuse scandal

CHRONIQUE. One defends his balance sheet, the other honors him, but the two heads of the executive spent their energy this week strangely.

The stories of more than 200 victims of all kinds of abuse from the 1950s to 2004 were leaked to the public in 2023.

French lawmakers divided over PM Bayrou child abuse hearing

As abuse claims shake France, PM Bayrou denies wrongdoing, but a divided parliament questions his integrity and future in office.

French lawmakers divided over PM child abuse hearing

French politicians were divided on Thursday over the marathon hearing of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who was grilled by lawmakers about claims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school.

Under oath, French PM Bayrou denies covering up sexual abuse at Catholic school

In testimony to a parliamentary committee hearing, French Prime Minister François Bayrou continued to deny he knew of sexual abuse allegations at a Catholic school in the Pyrenees when he served as education minister in the 1990s.

French Prime Minister Defiant in School Sexual Violence Inquiry

Facing a parliamentary inquiry and testifying under oath on Wednesday, François Bayrou, the embattled French prime minister, said he had never been personally informed of physical and sexual violence at a private Catholic school with which he had close ties in his region of southwest France. Since early last year, 200 legal complaints have been filed accusing priests and staff members at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram school of physical abuse, sexu…