« I put my knee on the ground, but I never collapsed, I only chose denial » – Liberation

For ten days, Arnaud Brute de Rémur has « All the time of the flashes ». Sometimes during the day. At night, often. The sixties from Dax sleeps badly, disturbed by nightmares in the shape of memories. So many years, he had turned them back, « Very far behind ». The man with a deep voice confides, his eyes damaged, that he recently collapsed several times « Like a madeleine ». His wife, Alexandrine, confirms: « He cracks a lot at the moment, I have never seen him like that. » Because when he lights his television and sees the images of the Notre-Dame de Betharram college (Catholic establishment of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques targeted by more than 140 complaints for violence, sexual assault and rape for facts spanning from the 1970s to the 90s), Arnaud has the feeling that we show « (S) a house ».

A house in which he remained from 1974 to 1984, from college to high school. So many years of schooling which he only mentioned with his relatives « Good times » lived in high school, but never put words on the physical abuse lives younger. Even denial with his former comrades of « Bethouze », With whom he is still friends today: “All these violence, I have hidden them. I