20 Complaints Filed Before Paris Nursery Instructor Arrested for Child Rape
September 27, 2026 · Frisian News
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More than 20 families filed complaints with Paris prosecutors before police arrested an English instructor on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting children aged three to five at a private Catholic nursery school. The case exposes a six-week gap between the first parental alert and the school reporting the matter to prosecutors.
More than 20 families had filed complaints before police arrested Yasser G., a 30-year-old English instructor of Algerian nationality, on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting children aged three to five at École Saint-Laurent, a private Catholic nursery school in the city's 10th arrondissement. The figure was reported by sources close to the investigation, cited by Remix News and Police et Réalités.
The suspected abuse took place during 30-minute introductory English sessions run by Yasser G. on behalf of Cap English Institute. He taught small groups in a first-floor room without the regular classroom teacher present. A 2019 French education law authorises this kind of early-language instruction in kindergartens.
The school's director first learned of the allegations on 11 May, when parents of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl reported via the École Directe app that the instructor had been "mean" and had touched their daughter's private parts. According to sources cited by Le Nouveau Détective and Police et Réalités, the director responded by questioning small groups of children herself rather than notifying the Paris prosecutor's office or suspending the instructor. Neither of those steps was taken. On 22 May, school management emailed parents asking to extend the Cap English programme to Wednesdays. Children therefore attended further sessions with the instructor between 11 May and the end of the school year.
The parents of the original victim filed a formal complaint on 22 June. Only after that, according to sources cited by all four outlets, did Cap English suspend the instructor and did the school report the matter to prosecutors. The Paris judicial police's Brigade for the Protection of Minors opened its investigation in early July. By the time police took Yasser G. into custody on Tuesday, the complaint count had passed 20. Police et Réalités reported at least 21 complaints.
Cap English told Le Monde that its former instructor "has been implicated in serious acts that appear to fall under the penal code." The company stated that he "was immediately removed from all activity with students as a precautionary measure as soon as the school principal informed Cap English." It added that required background checks had been completed at the time of hiring "without any information coming to its attention that would have barred him from working with minors." The Diocese of Paris did not respond to press inquiries.
While the Brigade for the Protection of Minors conducted child interviews under a protocol described as lengthy by sources cited by Police et Réalités, the suspect obtained a new position at a management school for the start of the academic year. He was not arrested until the autumn term had already begun.
Parents who spoke to reporters described the atmosphere at the school as tense. One mother, quoted by Remix News, said management had consistently described the initial report as "mixed," a characterisation she said "put the parents in a state of irritation even though it's very clear, a child doesn't invent things like that." The original director is now on sick leave, replaced by an interim manager. The new management has ended the Cap English contract and barred male caregivers from working with young children.
A three-year-old's account reached school management on 11 May. Prosecutors were told six weeks later.
FryskMear as 20 gesinnen hiene klachten yntsjinne foardat de plysje Yasser G. oanhold, in 30-jierrige Ingelske ynstrukteur fan Algerynske nasjonaliteit, op ferdenking fan ferkrêfting en seksuele oanranding fan bern fan trije oant fiif jier op École Saint-Laurent, in partikuliere katolike kleuterskoalle yn it 10e arrondissement fan de stêd. Dit sifer waard rapportearre troch boarnen dy't ticht by it ûndersyk steane, oanheald troch Remix News en Police et Réalités.
It fertochte misbrûk fûn plak tidens 30-minuten-lange ynliedende Ingelske lessen dy't Yasser G. joech út namme fan Cap English Institute. Hy joech les oan lytse groepen yn in keamer op de earste ferdjipping, sûnder dat de fêste learaar oanwêzich wie. In Frânske ûnderwiiswet út 2019 stiet dit soarte fan iere taalûnderwiis yn kleuterskoallen ta.
De direkteur fan de skoalle krige de beskuldigingen op 11 maaie foar it earst te hearren, doe't âlders fan in famke fan trije-en-in-heal jier fia de École Directe-app melden dat de ynstrukteur 'gemien' west hie en de skaamdelen fan harren dochter oanrekke hie. Neffens boarnen oanheald troch Le Nouveau Détective en Police et Réalités reageare de direkteur troch sels lytse groepen bern te freegjen, yn stee fan it Parysker parket te ynformearjen of de ynstrukteur te skorsjen. Gjin fan beide stappen waard setten. Op 22 maaie stjoerde de skoallieding âlders in e-post mei it fersyk om it Cap English-programma út te wreidzjen nei woansdeis. Bern folgen dêrom fierdere lessen mei de ynstrukteur tusken 11 maaie en it ein fan it skoallejier.
De âlders fan it oarspronklike slachtoffer tsjinnen op 22 juny in offisjele klacht yn. Pas dêrnei, neffens boarnen oanheald troch alle fjouwer media, sette Cap English de ynstrukteur op non-aktief en melde de skoalle de saak by de oanklager. De Brigade foar de Beskerming fan Minderjarigen fan de Parysker rjochterlike plysje begûn syn ûndersyk begjin july. Tsjin de tiid dat de plysje Yasser G. tiisdei yn bewaring naam, wie it oantal klachten boppe de 20 kommen. Police et Réalités rapportearre op syn minst 21 klachten.
Cap English fertelde Le Monde dat syn eardere ynstrukteur 'belutsen is by serieuze hannelingen dy't blykber ûnder it strafwetboek falle.' It bedriuw stelde dat hy 'fuortendaliks fan alle aktiviteiten mei learlingen ôfhâlden waard as foarsoarchsmaatregel, sa gau as de direkteur fan de skoalle Cap English ynformearre.' It foege dêroan ta dat de ferplichte antesedintekontrôles by it oannimmen foltôge wiene 'sûnder dat se ynformaasje hiene dy't him fan it wurkjen mei minderjarigen útsletten hawwe soe.' It Bisdom Parys reagearre net op fragen fan de parse.
Wylst de Brigade foar de Beskerming fan Minderjarigen bernepetearen hâlde ûnder in protokol dat troch boarnen oanheald troch Police et Réalités as langduorjend beskreaun waard, krige de fertochte in nije funksje by in managementskoalle foar it begjin fan it akademysk jier. Hy waard net oanholden oant it skoallejier yn de hjerst al begûn wie.
Âlders dy't mei sjoernalisten praten, beskreaune de sfear op de skoalle as gespannen. In mem, oanheald troch Remix News, sei dat de skoallieding it earste berjocht hieltyd as 'mingd' omskreaun hie, in kwalifikaasje dy't har neffens eigen sizzen 'de âlders yn in tastân fan irritaasje brocht, wylst it hiel dúdlik is, in bern betinkt sokke dingen net.' De oarspronklike direkteur is no mei sykteferlof, ferfongen troch in warnimmende manager. De nije lieding hat it kontrakt mei Cap English opsein en manlike fersoargers ferbea om mei lytse bern te wurkjen.
It ferhaal fan in trije-jierrige kaam op 11 maaie by de skoallieding oan. De oanklager waard seis wiken letter ynformearre.
Published September 27, 2026 · Frisian News