Betharram case: three men suspected of aggravated rape and sexual assault in police custody

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A 94-year-old religious, two lay overseers. On 19 February, the Pau Public Prosecutor's Office announced that it had detained three officials of the Notre-Dame de Bétharram Institution, renamed the Beau Rameau, located in Béarn. The three men were implicated in numerous testimonies from former students, who reported beatings and rapes.

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On Wednesday, three men were arrested and detained as part of an investigation into "aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault and/or aggravated violence", allegedly committed between 1957 and 2004 in the Collège-lycée Notre-Dame de Bétharram, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, according to Le Parisien.The suspects, born in 1931, 1955 and 1965, were placed in police custody for an initial period of 24 hours.The latter could be extended by an addition…

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Alain Esquerre, spokesperson for the victims of Bétharram, told La Dépêche du Midi his relief and emotion after the first three arrests on Wednesday 19 February in the scandal case...

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Since Wednesday, the three suspects have been heard for acts likely to have been committed at the private college-lycée Notre-Dame de Bétharram. A total of 112 people have reported in this tentacular case, which covers acts dating from the 1970s to the 2000s.

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These three men were born in 1931, 1955 and 1965 and were placed in police custody for "aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault and/or aggravated violence likely to have occurred between 1957 and 2004 at the Notre-Dame school in Betharram".

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"The situation in Betharram," says the independent commission on incest and sexual abuse of children, "is not a single case."