Violence in extracurriculars in Paris: Emmanuel Grégoire heard by the Senate

“I would like to tell you my deepest regrets, firstly personal, and also those of the City of Paris, for what happened in extracurriculars in Paris,” introduced the current mayor of Paris in his introductory remarks. I know and I hear the dismay, the anger and worry, the diminished confidence in extracurriculars.”

Emmanuel Grégoire also said he was “determined to continue to act”. “I would also like to express all my support for the children who were victims, for their families and to express my total determination to help justice to reveal the truth,” he added.

Facilitators are no longer the only ones implicated in cases of after-school violence in Paris. On September 4, the #MeTooÉcole collective announced the filing of a complaint by 17 families whose children attend schools in the 9th, 11th and 15th arrondissements. This complaint targets current or former Paris town hall executives, but also former mayor Anne Hidalgo, her former deputy Patrick Bloche, in charge of education, early childhood and families from October 2017 to March 2026, or even Emmanuel Grégoire, for “deliberately endangering the lives of others”, “failure to report aggression or harm to minors” and “failure to assist a person in danger”.

The Citizen Transparency association in turn indicated this September 7 to Le Figaro that it had issued a report for “absence of denunciation of mistreatment and offenses committed against minors in the context of so-called “extracurricular” activities in Paris” to the Paris public prosecutor's office on April 6.

By watching the Paris municipal councils of recent years, Guillaume Leroy, president of the association, was able to see that Anne Hidalgo and her teams had been alerted on several occasions.

Last Tuesday, Emmanuel Grégoire had already been interviewed by the information and evaluation mission chaired by the elected LR of the 15th arrondissement, Inès de Raguenel, which opened on July 2.

The current mayor of Paris, also former deputy in charge of human resources from 2014 to 2017 and first deputy from 2018 to 2024 of Anne Hidalgo, will be heard from 9:30 a.m. this Wednesday by the senatorial commission of inquiry.

The hearings of Parisian elected officials of the Senate inquiry committee are an opportunity for families to obtain answers.

Tuesday afternoon, the criminal court sentenced Mickaël M., 38, to five years in prison, including one year under an electronic bracelet, for sexual assaults committed on nine girls between 2022 and 2024 in the 15th arrondissement.

In Paris alone, according to the latest figures from the public prosecutor's office on August 31, 203 criminal investigations concerning extracurriculars and schools are underway. In April, the new mayor Emmanuel Grégoire announced a 20 million euro plan against sexual violence in after-school education.