Around twenty families of kindergarten children must file this Monday, October 12, a collective complaint with the Paris public prosecutor's office against the City of Paris and thirteen of its officials or former officials, including PS mayor Emmanuel Grégoire and his predecessor Anne Hidalgo, Le Figaro learned from their counsel, Me Louis Cailliez. They accuse them of having ignored alerts about violence in extracurriculars for more than ten years, including the alleged rapes committed in two schools in the 7th and 15th arrondissements of Paris.
The plaintiffs are parents of students at the Saint-Dominique (7th grade) and Volontaires (15th grade) nursery schools, whose children attended after-school activities in 2025 and 2026. Their children were either victims of facilitators indicted for rape and sexual assault, or were exposed to this risk. Revealed on Saturday by La Tribune Dimanche, the 46-page complaint, which Le Figaro was able to consult, targets the offenses of endangering others, failure to report mistreatment or sexual assault of minors, failure to assist a minor in danger, and false testimony under oath.
In addition to Emmanuel Grégoire and Anne Hidalgo, the complaint also targets Patrick Bloche, deputy in charge of education since 2017, then first deputy, as well as several members of their cabinets and managers of the school affairs department (Dasco) and the constituency of the 7th and 15th arrondissements. If it focuses on these two schools, the complaint intends to identify the faults committed “at each link in the hierarchical chain of the City of Paris”. She must join the investigation opened by the prosecution, announced on September 10 by the public prosecutor, Laure Beccuau. “This complaint responds to a vital need for families to understand the staggering succession of serious errors committed by the administration over a decade... to the point of irreparability,” their lawyer, Me Louis Cailliez, told Le Figaro.
At the center of the complaint is the journey of a leader from the Saint-Dominique school, today indicted for rape and placed in pre-trial detention. According to the document, parents alerted the city as early as September 2025 about its behavior towards young children: “humiliation, deprivation of food or recreation, prohibition of speaking, obligations to remain standing, turning off the lights, screaming and punishments”.
According to the complaint, the host was the subject of “neither a suspension, nor a report, nor an administrative investigation”. However, he was transferred on December 15, 2025 to the Volontaires school, without the director, the extracurricular manager or the parents being informed of the reasons for his arrival. In Saint-Dominique, the families were told that he was “on sick leave”. Between December 15 and February 2, the host committed rape and sexual assault on two children from the Volontaires school.
In the official report of a crisis meeting held on February 11, 2026, attached to the complaint, the city justified this departure by the extension of the internship period of the facilitator, then in the process of being established: “the procedure requires that in this case, the intern be changed to another internship site”. During this meeting, the director of school affairs allegedly declared “to give him another chance (…) we are putting him to the test in another setting,” according to an audio recording also cited by the complaint. On March 18, the latter ended up admitting “that there was simply no travel procedure”, while her deputy admitted: “yes we probably should have made a report, but we are told that we are making too many reports”.
Even before this transfer, the Saint-Dominique school had experienced a first case. In May 2025, the head of the after-school team was suspended after a complaint of sexual assault. However, the parents were told that he was “simply on sick leave”, and the elected parents were asked “not to publicize the matter”. The city even entrusted him with management of the school’s leisure center in August 2025.
According to the families, the city had known about the danger for more than ten years. In June 2015, a report from the General Inspectorate of the City of Paris made 50 recommendations, including systematic reporting to the courts and the immediate suspension of any agent involved. According to the complaint, “almost none” were implemented before 2026. A “flash mission” ordered by Anne Hidalgo “in great secrecy” in December 2025 would have concluded that “barely twenty” recommendations had been taken into account. According to figures presented by Emmanuel Grégoire last September before the Paris Council, the City made seven reports to the courts in 2021, compared to 159 in 2026.
Patrick Bloche is, moreover, accused of having viewed the images filmed on a hidden camera in Saint-Dominique by the program Cash Investigation in December 2025, then of having let several weeks pass, until their broadcast on January 29, 2026, “without making the slightest denunciation, neither administrative investigation, nor suspension of hosts nor reporting to the courts”.
Before the Senate commission of inquiry, on September 15, Anne Hidalgo claimed to have entrusted the follow-up of the 2015 report to her deputy Dominique Versini in 2020. On September 29, she denied it under oath: “the mayor of Paris never entrusted me with political responsibility for following up on the recommendations made by the general inspection of the 2015 report.” Emmanuel Grégoire has launched an action plan of 20 million euros against abuses that he considers “systemic”, and his entourage assured in September that “the City and its services are (standing) at the disposal” of justice. Anne Hidalgo's lawyer, Me Patrick Klugman, had denied that “any offense” could be accused of his client.
In Paris, 195 after-school leaders have been suspended, including 74 for suspicion of sexual violence against minors, since the start of 2026. On the criminal side, more than 230 investigations are underway in schools and nurseries in the capital.
