A new collective complaint filed in the after-school scandal in Paris, to “fight the impunity of all those responsible”

A new collective complaint will be filed on Monday October 12 with the Paris public prosecutor's office "to combat the impunity of all those responsible for the administration" of the City of Paris in cases of violence in extracurriculars, explains Sunday on franceinfo Louis Cailliez, lawyer for the plaintiffs. These 24 families are parents of children attending school in 2025 and 2026 in Paris, in the Saint-Dominique school (7th) and the Volontaires school (15th).

The objective of this complaint, consulted by franceinfo, is "not to stop at the direct perpetrators" but to target "all administration officials who allowed a leader to commit misdeeds, by being moved from one school to another, without being suspended or reported", indicates the plaintiffs' lawyer.

This 46-page complaint concerns “ten years of criminal misconduct”. It targets 14 people, including the City of Paris, as a local authority, the former mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, her former first deputy who became mayor of the capital Emmanuel Grégoire, or even Patrick Bloche, deputy for early childhood since 2017, for endangering others, failure to report mistreatment or sexual assault on minors, failure to assist a minor in danger and false testimony under oath. This last offense concerns comments made by Anne Hidalgo “before the Senate commission of inquiry”, specifies Louis Cailliez on franceinfo.

“My clients want the top of the chain” but also “the middle and bottom of the chain who have made mistakes, particularly administrative ones”. The lawyer for these 24 families mentions, for example, the responsibility of Dasco, the School Affairs Department of the City of Paris. “The succession of positions of responsibility allows, apparently, to dilute responsibility. Anne Hidalgo spoke in particular of the bankruptcy of an institution in the broad sense to prevent people from being identified,” underlines Louis Cailliez. However, he adds, “this drama was made possible by a succession of specific mistakes by specific people.”

This collective complaint is not the first targeting Parisian officials and elected officials. Last September, more than 15 families, grouped around the “MeToo schools” movement, filed a complaint. This targeted Anne Hidalgo and Emmanuel Grégoire in particular. The lawyer for these 15 families denounced "an institutional silence put in place by the Paris town hall" which, according to him, has been aware "since at least 2015" of what was happening in certain schools in the capital. This complaint targeted in particular the offense of deliberately endangering the lives of others, an accusation rejected by Anne Hidalgo who admitted in September on France Inter "regrets" for not having received the families of the victims in the spring of 2025. According to Emmanuel Grégoire's entourage, the new mayor of Paris is at the disposal of the justice system.

In addition to family complaints, there were reports sent to the Paris prosecutor last spring, by right-wing elected officials including Rachida Dati and the group co-chaired by Sophia Chikirou of France Insoumise.

According to the latest figures from Paris town hall in September, 195 facilitators have been suspended since the start of 2026, including 74 for suspicion of sexual violence against minors. From a criminal point of view, more than 230 investigations are underway in schools and nurseries in Paris.