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French PM Bayrou denies covering up sexual abuse at Catholic school

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou at a hearing on allegations of physical, psychological, and sexual violence against students at Notre-Dame de Betharram, 14 May 2025. © Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

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.

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