French Prime Minister François Bayrou denounces what he sees as a "mechanics of scandal" at play, after a former teacher from the private Catholic institution where several of his children were enrolled reaffirmed that he and his wife had been alerted to physical and sexual violence against students. Prosecutors have been investigating around 100 complaints concerning alleged violence, sexual assault and rape committed at the Catholic school in southwestern France over several decades. Three men, a religious figure and two lay supervisors born in 1931, 1955, and 1965, were arrested on Wednesday, February 19, for "aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault, and/or aggravated violence" over a period spanning from 1957 to 2004, according to the Pau prosecutor's office. COMPLETES VIDI36YB7MD_EN SOUNDBITE