Afterschool in Paris: Twenty new families file a complaint against the town hall

The after-school scandal in Paris is still growing. A new collective complaint targeting the City of Paris will be filed on Monday with the public prosecutor's office to fuel the investigation into the faults or shortcomings which may have led to this scandal of sexual violence, we learned from the plaintiffs' counsel. The twenty families associated with this complaint are parents of nursery school children who attended after-school activities at Saint-Dominique (7th grade) and Volontaires (15th grade) schools in 2025 and 2026, said their lawyer Maître Louis Cailliez, confirming information from La Tribune Dimanche.

Their children were either victims of after-school leaders currently under investigation for rape and assault in the investigation already opened concerning the Saint-Dominique school, or exposed to the risk represented by these people.

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This new complaint targets the offenses of endangering others, failure to report mistreatment or sexual assault and failure to assist a minor in danger, voluntary omission to prevent a crime or even false testimony under oath, echoing the declarations of former PS mayor Anne Hidalgo in the Senate in mid-September. It is intended to join the investigation already opened, mentioned by Paris prosecutor Laure Beccu at the beginning of September and targeting the current PS mayor of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire and his predecessor Anne Hidalgo.

It also implicates a series of officials from the school affairs department (Dasco) of the city and the school district of the 7th and 15th districts. “The recognition by the former mayor of Paris of the bankruptcy of the institution must not, however, allow the impunity of a certain number of very specific individuals who have erred, and who must answer criminally. We are not talking about incompetence without consequences, but about rape of very young children which should have been avoided,” underlined Me Louis Cailliez.