For everyone, awareness has followed the same path. By discovering in the media the testimonies of the former students of Notre-Dame de Betharram, private establishment in Béarn, they were seized by the obvious of having “Experience the same story” During their schooling in another Catholic private institution. And to be able, or to have, to tell in turn these years enamelled with physical violence and, in some cases, sexual.
In the wake of the case of the establishment of Betharram, which 152 former students, to date, question for acts of rape, sexual assault and violence, between the late 1950s and 2010, “Testimonies (…) come from everywhere “reports Pascal Gelie, member of the collective of victims of the Béarnais establishment. At least four collectives were made up of former students from other institutions, all under association contract with the State: Notre-Dame de Garaison, in Monléon-Magnoac (Hautes-Pyrénées), Notre-Dame du Sacré-Coeur, in Dax (Landes), Saint-François-Xavier, in Ustaritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), and Saint-Pierre, in Relecq-Kerhuon (Finistère). A union of the collectives was created, in order to discuss the respective stories.
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