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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Abuse ignored at french catholic school while bayrou was minister inquiry finds - Caught on Camera

A view of the Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram boarding school in Lestelle Bétharram, southwestern France. AFP - GAIZKA IROZ

A French parliamentary inquiry has found that physical and sexual abuse went unchecked for years at a Catholic boarding school while Prime Minister François Bayrou was education minister in the 1990s.

The 330-page report, released on Wednesday, says children at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram school suffered violence “in the absence of action that the former education minister had the means to take”, Violette Spillebout and Paul Vannier, the two co-rapporteurs, wrote.

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