Invited Sunday to the Grand Jury, Paris’s socialist mayor said the city has never protected sexual violence. The case has taken up a third of his time in his first hundred days.
Emmanuel Grégoire said the after-school sexual violence case demands “enormous energy, vigilance and determination” every day. Since the start of the year, 132 staff have been suspended and a judicial inquiry covers 84 nursery schools.
The mayor stressed the seriousness of the facts during his Grand Jury interview on RTL-Le Figaro-M6-Public Sénat. He noted the issue goes beyond Paris and public schools and relates to children’s place in society.
Grégoire repeated: “The city of Paris has never protected sexual violence.” The scandal has poisoned the opening of his term as mayor.
