Betharram, his violence, his omerta and his "iron discipline": a return to the 1990s, where everything could have changed

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While thirty years separate the most recent testimonies from the oldest, the stories of violence at Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram are similar. Yet, as early as the mid-1990s, warning signals were visible.

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For several weeks, the former students of the Collège-lycée Notre-Dame de Bétharram, near Pau, evoked the physical and sexual violence they allegedly suffered from the 1970s to the 1990s. Revelations that led three men to be arrested. On Friday, February 21, a judicial investigation was opened for rape for only one of the detainees, according to the AFP. Among the three men, a priest of 94 and two laymen, a 59-year-old supervisor and a 70-year-o…