The City of Paris, shaken by a scandal of assaults in after-school activities, has suspended 132 animators in 2026, including 52 for “suspicion of sexual or sexist violence”, announced Tuesday, June 9, Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire who launched an independent commission of inquiry on the subject.
“To date, the number of suspensions stands at 132 since January 1, including 52 for suspicion of sexual or gender-based violence. These suspensions are systematically the subject of the arsenal of triggering administrative investigations, referrals to the public prosecutor’s office”, underlined the new PS mayor of Paris, on the sidelines of the visit to a school in the 17th arrondissement, in the north-west of Paris.
Emmanuel Grégoire also announced the launch of an “independent commission of inquiry”, entrusted to the former children’s judge Antoine Garapon, who will have “carte blanche to make recommendations and analyze everything that happened”.
“It is a guarantor of competence, independence and moral authority,” said Emmanuel Grégoire, explaining that the scope of the commission corresponds to the extracurricular activities of Parisian schools. “I want to understand what can still fail in the current organization and learn from everything that has happened,” he added.
“Zero tolerance”
Emmanuel Grégoire, who made extracurricular activities the “absolute priority” at the start of his mandate, announced in April a 20 million euro action plan, which promises “zero tolerance” in the event of suspicion, an “independent” audit and measures to make the animation sector less precarious. A “citizens’ convention on the protection and time of children” must also submit its conclusions at the end of June.
In the morning, the Parisian right had asked the PS mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire, for a “major plan” of 50 million euros to put an end to sexual violence in after-school education, or 30 million more than the action plan of the new city councilor.
“The measures proposed by the city of Paris are very confusing, we do not understand where the 20 million euros are being allocated. And above all it is not an emergency plan, it does not correspond to the needs,” lamented Grégory Canal, who co-chairs with Rachida Dati the first opposition group at the Paris Council (Paris Liberté). “It’s a bandage on a tumor. We need a large-scale plan worth 50 million euros,” he estimated at a press conference.
