Missbrauchsskandal an katholischer Schule: Französischer Premierminister Bayrou bestreitet Vertuschung
Der französische Premierminister François Bayrou musste sich am Mittwochabend einer brisanten parlamentarischen Anhörung stellen und unter Eid aussagen, was er über den jahrzehntelangen Missbrauch an einer katholischen Schule im Südwesten Frankreichs wusste.
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00:00French Prime Minister François Bayrou faced one of his most politically sensitive moments yet on Wednesday evening,
00:08testifying under oath before a parliamentary committee examining what he knew or didn't know
00:15about decades of abuse at a Catholic school in southwestern France.
00:20The committee is investigating Bayrou's potential knowledge of allegations at the Notre-Dame-de-Betterham,
00:27a school where 200 complaints of sexual and physical abuse have been filed since February last year.
00:36Bayrou swore that he knew nothing about the violence and even denounced the political instrumentalization of the affair.
00:45He also claimed to have learned of the allegations through the press and denied ever having any sort of insider information.
00:53Despite it being a very personal issue for the Prime Minister, this Catholic school is the same school where his wife once taught
01:02and that his children also attended years ago.
01:06The political bombshell dropped earlier this year after media reports suggested that Bayrou may have known about the abuse as early as the 1990s
01:16and tried to cover it up back when he was the French Minister of Education.
01:22Another major turning point of the scandal, last month his own daughter came out and said that she was beaten by a priest from that same school when she was 14 years old.
01:35She said that she never told her father about the abuse.
01:39And while Bayrou may have survived multiple no-confidence votes and a fractured parliament since his appointment last December,
01:49the Notre-Dame-de-Betterham affair may prove to be harder to outrun.
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