Paris school periscolary scandal: mairie refuses to share animators’ schedules
44 families seek the timetables after 16 staff were held for suspected sexual violence against minors.
Parents of a complainant at the Saint-Dominique school in Paris are pushing for key documents after allegations of sexual violence and other abuse involving periscolary staff.
Le Parisien reports the parents have launched a “sommation interpellative” to force the city administration to hand over the schedules of the after-school animators who had contact with their children. The demand comes after 16 animators were placed in police custody this spring for suspected rapes, sexual assaults and violence against minors.
For around ten months, the families behind the complaint, now 44 families, have repeatedly asked the City of Paris education department, Dasco, for the timetables. The department has not been able to provide the schedules.
Those plannings are described as crucial to the ongoing judicial investigation. Without them, families say it is impossible to verify which animator was present on each day and with which child. They also raise concerns that some animators, once released from custody, could have avoided further proceedings if investigators could not confirm their presence at the school and corroborate the children’s allegations.
The case status of the animators is not described in the available details, but the matter is framed as still dependent on obtaining the missing timetables.
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Source:
Le Parisien