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The perpetrators of these crimes were never brought to justice, despite complaints lodged as early as the 1990s. Today, the vast majority of those cases are ineligible for prosecution due to the statute of limitations but the victims are still demanding accountability, notably from current Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, who was education minister at the time and a high-ranking local figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[37668,37667,1025],"class_list":["post-88436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-betharram-victims","tag-sexual-abuse-m-french-catholic-school","tag-violence","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Violence and sexual abuse at French Catholic school: B\u00e9tharram victims speak out - 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