Jean-Marie Delbos, « zero victim » of Betharram-Liberation

For Jean-Marie Delbos, 79 years old and some cancers, Betharram, is the fight of a life. Or rather the fight for his life. As there is a zero patient-the first which contracts a disease during major epidemics-, the Béarnais is the « zero victim » of the immense scandal of Betharram, this flagship of Catholic education in the Pyrean Atlantic which, for decades, conscientiously camouflaged the terror and perversity that reigned there. The police pensioner is the first to have publicly revealed this ocean of horrors, the first in the long list of those who, in recent months, have, one after the other, their file to the Pau public prosecutor – 200 until now.

« No one forbids me to speak », Lance Jean-Marie Delbos, seated, this spring day, in front of sparkling water. No one (nor nothing) stops the Béarnais, big mouth and strong head. In these kinds of bad things, there are always capable of rushing into the heap. With a broken back, walking hard with a crutch, he rolled a hundred kilometers from his native village Castetnau-Camblong, in Béarn, to Lourdes. This is the second time that we meet there.

Three and a half years ago on November 6, 2021, Jean-Marie Del