The Blast media uncovered the silence of François Bayrou about another case of rape by a teacher in the 1990s.
Since the revelation of the Betharram affair, François Bayrou continues to say that he was not aware of the alleged facts of sexual violence in the Catholic Institute. He denounced on Friday, February 21, a “scandal mechanics” on Friday, February 21, when a former teacher argued that his wife and himself had been alerted to the acts of violence. The accusations do not stop there. The Head of Government is suspected of having neglected another case with negligence while he was Minister of National Education, reveals in one of his investigations the media Blast.
This would concern repeated rapes on a siblings at the Henri IV college in Bergerac in Dordogne. A brother and a sister then assured at the time having suffered sexual assault by a math teacher, André Garric, for several years. “Former their father’s colleague, he has been sodomicing them since the age of seven,” said the media. This college was an “institution” in the city and the professor was “a respected figure”.
The father of children, civil servant in National Education, would have tried to denounce the facts in 1992 but would have found himself in front of a “wall” and the “law of silence”. He would even have ended up being forcibly transferred when he insisted to be heard. In 1994, L’Express Published “Me, Frédéric, raped by a teacher”, where the brother spoke when he was 15 years old. He assured that he had never been taken seriously: “They blame us for having put the mess, for having put a good man in prison. However it is not the victim. He is my sister, It’s me, right? ” He would also have written to François Bayrou.
The omerta denounced
The teacher was finally sentenced to six years in prison in 1993 for modesty attacks on Frédéric, and also on his own granddaughter before being sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment in 1995. The general inspection had been Seized by François Bayrou after the first conviction to shed light on “which had dysfunctioned”. She would then have indicated in a note to the Minister that “in the event of sexual abuse committed by a teacher, the initial disbelief of his colleagues, the head of the establishment and the whole of the hierarchy, then the slowness in the referral of justice or the hesitations to start a disciplinary procedure leave in opinion the deplorable impression of an educational environment more united with the culprit or more concerned with the image of an establishment than the trauma of victims “.
François Bayrou would then have been encouraged to take a circular to end the stuffed business in the future. “This invitation remained without effect,” said the investigation media, stating that the circular had never been written.
This case was told in the book The French omerta of the journalist of Point Sophie Coignard and Alexandre Wickham in 1999. An answer that François Bayrou would have given to one of his advisers who tried to alert him is thus cited: “I really do not see the interest of dirtying national education. And then you imagine the reaction of the unions? No I assure you: there are times when you have to know how to be silent. ” Words that would not have been disputed at the exit of the book by François Bayrou.