Paris Prosecutor Opens Investigations Targeting Mayor Grégoire and Ex‑Mayor Hidalgo

Overview

• The Paris prosecutor announced Thursday that investigations have been opened after three complaints were received and joined, formally targeting Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire, former mayor Anne Hidalgo and at least one former senior municipal official.
• About a dozen to seventeen families, including the MeTooEcole collective, filed complaints accusing the city and its leaders of inaction on sexual abuse in périscolaire services and alleging offences such as deliberate endangerment, failure to report crimes, and non‑assistance to persons in danger.
• The probes sit inside a much wider judicial effort: since early 2026 more than 200 criminal enquiries into school and périscolaire abuses are under way and the city has suspended 132 animators, 52 of them for suspected sexual or sexist violence.
• Anne Hidalgo said she stands with the families, defended measures taken since a 2015 inspection and described recruitment checks used by the city, while also acknowledging 'holes' in protections and refusing to offer a formal apology.
• Next steps include victim‑sensitive procedures promised by the prosecutor, Senate commission hearings next week of involved officials, and lengthy specialist investigations that could reshape political and legal accountability in Paris’s education services.