Probes Ongoing Into Alleged Abuse at 84 Paris Preschools: Prosecutor
- Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau announced investigations into 84 preschools, around 20 primary schools, and about 10 daycare centres following parental accusations of supervisor abuse; five people have been summoned to court.
- To address the violence, Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire suspended 78 aides during the first three months of 2026, including 31 suspected of sexual abuse, while vowing improved vetting and training for recess monitors.
- A Paris court will rule next month on a 47-year-old monitor accused of sexual assault and harassment against children in 2024, with prosecutors seeking an 18-month suspended sentence and a professional ban.
- Auxiliary staff have demanded increased staffing to ensure no adult is left alone with children, as an independent commission reported that 160,000 children suffer sexual assault or rape annually across France.
- Statistics indicate the abuser is a family member in eight out of 10 cases, providing context on the broader societal challenge of protecting children from sexual violence beyond school-based risks.
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The figures were given by the Paris prosecutor this Sunday. The investigations into violence in the extracurricular environment in Paris concern 84 kindergartens. No district of the capital is spared. Faced with the scale of the scandal, the city committed in mid-April a plan of action of 20 million euros for the extracurricular, including a professionalisation of the sector. This afternoon, she recalled that any suspicion would lead to an immed…
It's a growing scandal. On Sunday 17 May, the Paris prosecutor revealed that more than a hundred schools in the capital are being investigated by the criminal brigade, an emergency situation for suspicions of sexual violence.
French justice investigates more than a hundred schools for possible cases of violence and sexual assaults against children, after in the last few...
Paris Probes Child Abuse By Staff At 84 Kindergartens, 20 Primary Schools
Parents in the city have in recent months accused supervisors in charge of children outside the classroom -- such as during recess or before pick-up -- of mistreating, or physically or sexually abusing pupils in their care.
The Paris prosecutor reported that a facilitator had been placed in pre-trial detention, saying that this case "is quite an emergency".
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