Three men, including two animators, were arrested in the past two weeks for sexual assaults on 12 children aged 3 to 9 in three Parisian schools, AFP learned from a source close to the case. The suspects were presented to justice.
Three men were arrested for sexual assaults on 12 children, aged 3 to 9, in three Paris schools. The arrests occurred in the two weeks before March 20, 2026, according to a source close to the case cited by AFP. Two are animators, and the third is the husband of a teacher. The victims are distributed as follows: nine children aged 6 to 9 at Vigée Lebrun school in the 15th arrondissement, assaulted by an animator; two children aged 3 and 4 at Grands Champs nursery school in the 20th arrondissement, by the teacher's husband; and a 5-year-old girl at Aqueduc school in the 10th arrondissement, by an animator. In the latter school, a teacher was also arrested and held in custody for assaults on six children aged 3 and 4 but was not brought before justice, the source added. The three investigations are handled by the intra-family section of the Brigade de protection des mineurs (BPM) of the Paris judicial police.
