In Lestelle-Bétharram (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
“At Notre-Dame de Bétharram, we didn’t just use old-fashioned educational methods. There was a veritable system of torture worthy of a gulag. The perpetrators of the rapes, six religious and two lay people, like the many perpetrators of physical violence, must be punished.
» Alain Esquerre's words are strong, commensurate with the fight he is waging.
Since he created, on October 10, the Facebook page “Alumni of Bétharram middle and high school, victims of the institution”, testimonies have been pouring in.
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I spend my evenings and weekends reading them and discussing with the victims to convince them to file a complaint,
” explains this 52-year-old man who attended the renowned school of Lestelle-Bétharram, near Pau, between 1980 and 1985.
To date, no less than 33 people have filed complaints for acts committed between 1970 and 1990. These are “
mainly acts of violence and, for fifteen complaints, acts of assault…
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