French PM Bayrou Denies Covering up Sexual Abuse at Catholic School

The French Prime Minister is accused of covering up history, dating back to when he was Minister of Education

The attack on journalists, during his hearing in the Assembly on Wednesday 14 May, and then the selective use of their work to counter the commission of inquiry, categorizes the Prime Minister as one of the policies that are now slipping on an easy and dangerous slope.

Political turbulence again threatens the French government by double heading. Prime Minister François Bayrou is on the ropes after appearing this week before the...

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. Bayrou said he only learned of the alleged abuse at Notre-Dame de Bétharram through media reports, and insisted he had not received any official information when he was Education Minister from 1993 to 1997. “I had nothi

15:09 With great ambitions for France and himself, François Bayrou moved into Matignon at the end of 2024. But due to an abuse affair at a school near his home base of Pau and a controversial working method ...