Under pressure, the new mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, announced this Friday a plan to respond to the complaints of alleged sexual abuse in schools, which led to suspension of 31 monitors since the beginning of the year.
The councilor socialist48 years old, took office last Sunday with these abuse like his”first lucha“, after her rivals blamed her predecessor for the situation during the campaign, Anne Hidalgo.
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In Paristhe city council is in charge of hiring and training the monitors what they care and carry out activities with children after classes at schools publicbefore their parents can come pick them up.
“Everything must be reviewed from the beginning with one objective: zero tolerance,” declared the socialist mayor, who in November confessed that he himself was a victim of abuse as a child within the framework of an extracurricular activity.
From the beginning of 2026, 78 monitors were suspendedamong them 31 by suspicions of violence sexualdetailed Grégoire, who promised “total transparency” to the families, whose “anger”, in his opinion, “is legitimate.”
Of those suspended this year for violence physical or sexual, nine worked at the same nursery school.
Los parents of students have accused the school management of not informing them of their suspicions.
The “immense majority of cases” of sexual violence “date back to 2024 and, above all, to 2025,” mainly in nursery schools, he explained.
Last year, the mayor’s office removed 16 monitors due to suspicions, according to mayoral figures.
“If there was a collective error, it was treating these cases as isolated incidents when in reality they reflect a systemic risk, and perhaps even a systemic code of silence,” the councilor acknowledged to the newspaper Le Monde.
education students children’s were especially vulnerable and almost all the alleged aggressors were menaccording to the mayor.
It’s a beginning
Paris plans to allocate 20 million euros (more than 410 million pesos) for the plan, which includes better selection and training of monitorsclearer channels to report abuseand transparency with parents.
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Grégoire, who received on Monday at associations of fathers and mothers, specified that they will publish statistics on cases and suspensions of monitors, and who will communicate to the families the results and details of the procedures open.
“It’s a start. Some of our proposals have been taken up, but emergency measures are missing,” he told AFP Barka Zerouali, co-founder of the #MeTooEcole collective and promoter of a petition that collected more than 22,300 signatures.
In France, the movement feminist #MeToowhich highlighted cases of sexual assaults on women, also made it possible to break the taboo in sectors of the sociedad such as cinema and in other groups, such as children.
In 2021, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase) estimated that some 216 thousand minors were victims of priests and religious between 1950 and 2020, a figure that rises to 330 thousand if employees of religious institutions are counted.
One of the most notorious cases in recent years was that of Betharram. More than 200 former students of this school catholic from the south-west of France denounced assaults physical and sexual for decades.
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