French Prime Minister François Bayrou will appear before a parliamentary commission on 14 May to answer questions about his role in a 1998 investigation into alleged child sexual abuse at a Catholic school when he was education minister. Other former holders of the post, as well as the incumbent Education Minister Élisabeth Borne, have also been called for questioning.
The inquiry is examining state oversight of private schools, including the Bétharram case – a scandal involving decades of alleged physical and sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school in the southwest of France.
