Hélène Perlant, the eldest daughter of France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou, became the latest person to speak out about suffering abuse at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram school in southwestern France. Perlant attended summer camp at the school when she was 14 and said a priest beat her and “dragged [her] across the floor” by the hair.
A daughter of France‘s Prime Minister François Bayrou Wednesday became the latest person to accuse the clergy running a school in the Pyrenees of systemic abuse including while her father was a local official, saying a priest beat her during summer camp when she was 14.
Bayrou’s eldest daughter Hélène Perlant, who is now 53 and uses her mother’s name, said however that her father did not know about the incident.
Multiple accusations of sexual and physical abuse at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram boarding school have cast a shadow on Bayrou’s premiership – the latest in decades…
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