Ségolène Royal said on Monday to the press that she "put an end to the law of silence" when she was Minister Delegate for School Education (1997-2000).
Ségolène Royal, who had just been heard behind closed doors by the office of the National Assembly's overseas delegation, had sparked the controversy by declaring on January 3, on BFMTV-RMC, that pedophilia “was a taboo , before ”and that“ we discreetly transferred the pedophile (teachers), if possible in the overseas territories like that it was far away we no longer heard about it ”.
"The consternation aroused by these remarks touched the whole of the ultramarine political class", underlined in a press release the president of the overseas delegation of the Assembly Olivier Serva (LREM, Guadeloupe), who invited him to speak before the delegation office.
The Office of the Overseas Delegation hears the former Minister Delegate for School Education, Ms. @RoyalSegolene, following her recent remarks concerning the transfers of pedophile teachers in Overseas. #segoleneroyal #outremer pic.twitter.com/KOLVKINZrk
- Olivier SERVA MP (@olivier_serva) February 10, 2020300 suspension cases triggered
Ségolène Royal clarified to the press at the end of her hearing that when she had been appointed deputy minister, she had "heard of this rumor of transfers, not only in the overseas territories, but also in isolated rural villages or even in administration. Not seen not taken you see, the law of silence reigned and I put an end to this law of silence ”.
She explained that after having put in place the circular of August 26, 1997 "which said very clearly to adults in the school environment that they had the obligation to seize the public prosecutor since they had the revelation by a child or by the family of this child of sexual abuse on him and that the teachers were immediately suspended "," there were 300 cases that were triggered ".
This circular, according to her, "made it possible to clarify the procedures and therefore to put an end to the rumor by passing to acts and facts and therefore also to convictions and revelations".
A parliamentary inquiry requested
Questioned at the beginning of February, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer affirmed that there was "no convincing element" allowing to corroborate the words of the former socialist minister.
Several deputies, including that of Guyana Gabriel Serville (GDR) and Olivier Serva, have asked for the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry. LFI deputy Jean-Hugues Ratenon (Reunion) deplored a hearing in camera in restricted format, in front of the office of the delegation, and not the entire delegation.
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Transfer of pedophile teachers in Overseas France: Ultramarine deputies call for an investigation after the words of Ségolène Royal
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- Jean-Michel Blanquer
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- Ségolène Royal