France: Algerian ‘Teacher’ Arrested Over Alleged Rape and Sexual Assaults of Children Aged 3–5 at a Paris Catholic Nursery

A 31-year-old Algerian national has been indicted and jailed pending trial over allegations of rape, sexual assault and violence against 22 children at a private Catholic nursery school in Paris.

According to reports from the French and wider pan-European press, accusations involve boys and girls born between 2020 and 2022, some barely old enough to explain clearly what had allegedly happened to them.

The suspect, identified in French reports as Yasser G., worked for Cap English and delivered introductory English lessons at École Saint-Laurent in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. He taught small groups during roughly 30-minute sessions and was reportedly left alone with the children without their regular classroom teacher present.

Paris prosecutors say the 22 children interviewed described alleged shouting, insults, blows, intimate touching and acts of sexual penetration. Those claims remain allegations to be tested by an investigating judge, but their scale has transformed what began with one family’s complaint into a major child-protection case.

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Parents have directed some of their fiercest criticism at Saint-Laurent’s leadership. One mother said families had initially been asked to remain silent so as not to interfere with investigators, but described management’s communication as “catastrophic from the start” and said the affair had to become public.

Another father spoke of “stress” and “anxiety” and said it was horrifying that someone could allegedly operate on what he called an “industrial” scale. A mother who attended a school meeting said parents became angry when officials continued describing the information as uncertain, arguing that a child of that age does not simply invent such allegations.

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The suspect’s Algerian nationality has inevitably pushed the affair into France’s bitter argument over mass immigration, assimilation and the standards applied to people entrusted with children. That nationality is a documented fact in this case, but the available reporting does not establish his immigration route, length of residence, citizenship history or whether immigration authorities ever had grounds to exclude or remove him.

France does have a broader and worsening problem with recorded sexual violence against minors. Interior Ministry data show 132,300 victims of recorded sexual violence in 2025, including 76,200 minors, while the overall number of recorded sexual-violence victims rose 8% from the previous year.

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