French PM’s daughter says she was brutally beaten at scandal-hit school

The daughter of the French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said she was brutally beaten at a private Catholic school at the centre of a growing sexual abuse scandal that has shocked France. He faces questions over whether he knew about decades of alleged widespread violence and sexual abuse at the school and did not act. Ninety of these complaints allege sexual violence, including one that alleges group rape by two priests. This month the parliamentary commission heard two testimonies under oath that contradicted Bayrou’s assertion that he had no knowledge about allegations concerning the Bétharram school. Bayrou told TV reporters: “I have never intervened in any legal case.”Bayrou will be questioned by the parliamentary commission on 14 May.