Parents of students have accused the school's management of not informing them of their suspicions. The "vast majority" of sexual violence cases "date back to 2024 and, above all, to 2025", mainly in kindergartens, it was explained. Buenos Aires, April 3 (NA) – The new mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, announced this Friday a millionaire plan to respond to complaints of alleged sexual abuse in schools, which led to the suspension of 31 school assistants since the beginning of the year. The 48-year-old socialist leader took office last Sunday with these abuses as his "first struggle", after his rivals held his predecessor, Anne Hidalgo, responsible for the situation during the campaign. In Paris, the municipality is in charge of hiring and training the monitors who look after and carry out activities with children after school in public schools, before their parents can come and pick them up. "We need to review everything from the beginning with one goal: zero tolerance", declared the mayor, who in November confessed that he himself was a victim of abuse when he was a child as part of an extracurricular activity, reported the site RFI and learned the Argentine News Agency. Since the beginning of 2026, 78 monitors (school assistants) have been suspended, including 31 on suspicion of sexual violence, detailed Grégoire, who promised "total transparency" to the families, whose "anger", in his opinion, "is legitimate". Of those suspended this year for physical or sexual violence, nine worked in the same kindergarten. Last year, the city hall removed 16 monitors on suspicion, according to city hall figures. "If there was a collective error, it was to treat these cases as isolated incidents when they actually reflect a systemic risk, and perhaps even a systemic code of silence", the mayor admitted to the newspaper Le Monde. Kindergarten students were especially vulnerable and almost all alleged abusers were men, he said. Paris plans to allocate 20 million euros (23 million dollars) to the plan, which includes better selection and training of school assistants, clearer channels to report abuse, and transparency with parents.
