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TL, DR "Eveline Le Bris, representative of the Collective of Victims of the Good Shepherd Institutions, stunned the parliamentary commission of inquiry into violence in schools this Thursday. She recounted how a young girl who tried to run away from one of these institutions was allegedly "eaten" by the nuns' dogs."

Young girls were abused, raped, and those who tried to run away were dogs meal in this French Catholic school.

The school where it happened:
"Notre-Dame de Bétharram is a French Catholic middle and high school founded in 1837 in Lestelle-Bétharram (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) by Michel Garicoïts.

Several legal cases involving sexual assault and rape of minors have been linked to the institution. In 2024, approximately one hundred complaints were filed with the courts by former students, relating to incidents that occurred between the late 1950s and the 2010s."

The whole news article translated in English:
"The story of Éveline Le Bris, representative of the Collective of Victims of the Good Shepherd Institutions, stunned the deputies. The septuagenarian spoke before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into violence in schools this Thursday, the first day of the hearing. In 1963, Éveline Le Bris, then a teenager, was sent to a reformatory belonging to the Good Shepherd Congregation in Le Mans, where she suffered several years of abuse.

This Thursday, she responded to a question from LFI MP Paul Vannier about the fate of young girls who attempted to run away from their institution. Éveline Le Bris then recounted how one of them, while trying to hide in a tree, fell and was allegedly "eaten" by the nuns' dogs. "With the German Shepherds, we were invited to go through the groves and gardens to see if they had climbed up a tree to hide... And sometimes, they missed, they fell to the ground, like in Nancy, where she moaned all night... And the dogs... Ate her, in fact."
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This account shocked the two rapporteurs and the chair of this commission. "It would be good to understand how a death caused by dogs that belonged, as you say, to the nuns could have been covered up," reacted the chair of the commission, Socialist Party MP Fatiha Keloua-Hachi.

This commission was created after the Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram scandal. The National Assembly's Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education has been given the powers to conduct a six-month investigation into "the methods of state control and prevention of violence in schools," both private and public."

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