Twenty former students of a private establishment file a complaint for physical and sexual violence. The facts allegedly took place in a Catholic middle school in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques forty years ago.
In 2017, a canonical investigation had already been carried out by the Bishopric of Bayonne, after the denunciation of sexual abuse committed on a former student. The Church's investigation concluded that the case had been dismissed. The head of the establishment, Father Jean-Marie Ruspil, said he was “saddened” and considered it “very regrettable that violence could have been used against children”