Gaizka Iroz \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe bishop of Bayonne, Mgr <\/sup>Marc Aillet, expressed his ” shame “<\/em>Thursday, March 13, faced with the multiple denunciations of physical and sexual violence in Catholic establishments in the diocese, including that of Notre-Dame de Betharram (Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques), ensuring that they have discovered these facts in the press.<\/p>\n“The Church has already expressed its shame several times and I do it today <\/em>[jeudi] \u00bb\u00bb<\/em>said Mr.gr <\/sup>Aillet, expressing his “Solidarity with the victims”<\/em>during a press conference organized with a representative of the Congregation of Betharram and the head of Catholic education in the diocese, disturbed by a child rights activist.<\/p>\nArnaud Gallais, co -founder of Mouv’enfants, association of victims of sexual violence, accused the Church of “Refuse to open your archives”<\/em> and denounced the ” lies “<\/em> of the institution on his ignorance of physical and sexual violence in Catholic establishments in the region.<\/p>\n Arnaud Gallais, co-founder of the Mouv’ENFANT collective, lifts his fist during a press conference on cases of sexual violence in the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, in the presence of the Diocesan Director of Catholic Education of the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, Vincent Destais, and the bishop of Bayonne, in Bayonne, March 13, 2025. Gaizka Iroz \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cEveryone knew here. I was in small villages and everyone said: “Betharram, everyone knew” “<\/em>he launched his raised fist, gloved with white, standing on the platform in front of the representatives of the Catholic Church. “Stop telling us that you find out <\/em>(\u2026) You have blood on your hands “<\/em>he added.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> “The silences around Betharram say a lot about France’s problem with regard to the rights of the child” <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nA call for transparency and action<\/h2>\n “I hear your anger, your suffering”<\/em>replied Mgr <\/sup>Aillet, who praised “Liberation of speech”<\/em> After “A law of omerta generalized in the Church and society”<\/em> during “Decades”<\/em>but kept having learned “By the press”<\/em> The accusations of violence committed to Lestelle-B\u00e9tharram and in another private college of his diocese, in Ustaritz, where facts have been denounced without filing a complaint so far.<\/p>\n Arnaud Gallais, in Bayonne, in the southwest of France, March 13, 2025. Gaizka Iroz \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAt his side, the Diocesan Director of Catholic Education, Vincent Destais, said he sent “A letter to all school heads”<\/em> For “Receive all past victims”<\/em>welcome their words and “Encourage complaint”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> Betharram case: thirty years of inertia in national education <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n“Our feeling of shame, suffering and compassion”<\/em> East “Collective”<\/em>assured this manager of 132 establishments welcoming 29,000 students today. “We need to understand<\/em> (\u2026) Because it is out of the question that it happens again \u201d<\/em>he insisted.<\/p>\nFor his part, Father Laurent Bacho, responsible for the Congregation Listening Cell, said “Farfful”<\/em> And “Stunned”<\/em> of the “Massive facts”<\/em> And “Unimaginable”<\/em> clerk in Betharram, evoking a “Blindness”<\/em> of his peers. Meetings with victims, at the end of November in Pau, and the decisions to launch a repair process “Were able to appear late”<\/em> but “Using us in a difficult path”<\/em> Who “Can bring a calm”<\/em> And “A point of reconstruction to the victims”<\/em>estimated the religious.<\/p>\n“Posting any contact with children to Father Lamasse”<\/h2>\n “Conservatory measures have been taken to prevent any ministry, any contact with children to Father Lamasse, who can no longer say publicly mass”<\/em>said in front of the press Mgr <\/sup>Marc Aillet. Father Henri Lamasse, 94, was placed in police custody, in mid-February, as part of the judicial inquiry, and released without being prosecuted, due to the prescription of the facts that were accused of-including one that he recognized-going back to half a century. This ban on “Saying mass”<\/em> is conservatory.<\/p>\nAt the end of the press conference, Gilles Parent, who denounced physical violence in Ustaritz in the 1970s, said he was ” satisfied “<\/em> exchanges.<\/p>\n\n Newsletter<\/span> <\/p>\n“In the front page”<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy goal is that the victims can speak. I asked Mgr <\/sup>Aillet that he appeals and he did it \u201d<\/em>told the France-Presse this library employee in Bayonne 63 years old.<\/p>\nThe Facebook group he launched, on the model of that of the alumni of Betharram, brings together a hundred victims to date who denounce the “Holling up of the wooden rule”<\/em>on which the students had to stay on their knees if they made mistakes by reciting their lessons.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> In the wake of the Betharram affair, the release of speech lifts the veil on the extent of the violence passed in Catholic establishments <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n The world with AFP<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Reuse this content <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\nTm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Aillet, bishop of Bayonne, speaks during a press conference on sexual violence cases in the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, in Bayonne, March 13, 2025. Gaizka Iroz \/ AFP The bishop of Bayonne, Mgr Marc Aillet, expressed his ” shame “Thursday, March 13, faced with the multiple denunciations of physical and sexual violence in Catholic establishments in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23546,7158,3901,1866,1961,5453,2693,153],"class_list":["post-105877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bayonne","tag-bishop","tag-expresses","tag-face","tag-shame","tag-solidarity","tag-victims","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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