At the end of February, a few weeks after the explosion of the media on revelations of systemic sexual abuse at Bétharram’s Notre-Dame School in the Pyrénées, Nathalie began asking questions. It was one of the many mothers, sisters and aunts who begin to ask about the past of their children, brothers or uncles who attended the private Catholic School, which is the objective of a growing number of complaints of physical violence, sexual aggression and rape.
Could his brother Nicolas, a student of the institution, also have been a victim? He died on June 12, 1980, at the age of 12 for meningitis at Pau Hospital and was no longer here to answer that question. But, after reading several testimonies in the press, Nathalie thought, unfortunately, his brother could have had the “typical profile” or a dam for the pedophile priests of Bétharram. So he made an initial call to obtain information in the courier groups of the victims collective. Her investigation led her to unexpected revelations about her brother’s death.
Speaking for the first time on this subject, Nathalie agreed to tell her story to I monde. He simply requested that his brother’s name and name be changed. His father had not deployed with his search for truth. He had no idea that she planned to file a complaint against the institution in the coming days for not helping a person in danger. His brother’s story revealed the serious deficiencies of the institution in the supervision of the students, which caused the death of a child.
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