The daughter of French Prime Minister François Bairou revealed that she was brutally beaten in a private Catholic school, located in the Dian scandal of sexual abuse, which has shocked the country.

53 -year -old Elen Perlan told Paris Match that a senior priest of Notre-dame de bétharram hit her in front of her peers during a summer camp In the 1980s, when she was 14, but said she never said it to her father.

The Bétharram scandal has also shaken the Prime Minister’s position as questions arise as to whether he knew about incidents of violence and sexual abuse and never acted.

Bayrou, a former Minister of Education, who was a local politician near the school for many years, had Three of his children to school And his wife also taught him.

The 53 -year -old describes her beating in creepy detail during summer bellwhen a priest dragged off the hair and hit.

“One night, when we defrauded our sleeping bags, (the father) Lartiguet with Suddenly grabbed by hair; dragged me to the floor For several meters, and then punched me and kicked me everywhere, especially in the stomach … I peeled and stayed like that all night, wet and wrapped like a ball, in my sleeping bagPerlan described, in the book “Le Silence de Bétharram” by Alain Escuer, a representative of the school’s collective, which is expected to be released.

In her testimony she notes that Bétharram was like a sect “Which exerted psychological pressure on students and teachers to remain silent.”

Perland told Paris Match that she had never told her father about what had happened. ‘I didn’t talk about it for 30 yearshe said. “Maybe unconsciously I wanted to protect my father from the political blows he received locally”he said.

Since last February they have Submitted 200 complaints who blame them priest and staff of Bétharram for physical or sexual abuse from the 1957 to 2004. Ninety of these complaints speak of sexual violence, including one who claims a group rape of two priests.

There are complaints from 1991 to 1994.

And Bayrou himself has been called upon to file a parliamentary committee on May 14, as part of the investigation into complaints. He has categorically denied that he knew what was happening at his daughter’s school. “I have never been informed of anything related to violence or sexual violence,” he said.