Scandal at Notre-Dame de Bétharram: already in 1998, a rape case had marred the school. The former director of the premises, Father Carricart, was indicted for rape and imprisoned.
The clergyman was accused by a former student for acts committed ten years earlier. It was at the time of his arrest for a sexual exhibition that the young man freed himself from this weight. The first attack of which he said he was the victim occurred on the day of his father's funeral.