Alain Hontangs and Robert Matrassou, investigators at the Pau gendarmerie during the Betarrham case, claim that Judge Christian Mirande informed them in 1998 of François Bayrou's involvement in the case. Father Pierre Silviet-Carricart, head of the institution from the 1970s to the early 1990s, was subsequently accused of rape by a student. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES