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.
Published September 27, 2026 · Frisian News