Overview

• Ecologist leaders Marine Tondelier and Cyrielle Chatelain formally accused Prime Minister François Bayrou of perjury in the National Assembly on April 27.
• Bayrou had repeatedly denied any knowledge of abuse at Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram during February government sessions, despite new evidence to the contrary.
• Testimony from Bayrou’s daughter revealed that he discussed the abuse with her in 1998 and claimed to have raised it with a judge in a related case.
• Over 200 abuse complaints against the school, attended by several of Bayrou’s children, are under investigation by the Pau prosecutor’s office.
• The Ecologists have called for Bayrou’s resignation or a public apology, as parliamentary and judicial inquiries continue ahead of his May 14 hearing.