Overview
- Tuesday the 58-year-old was presented to an investigating judge and formally placed under investigation, a status in French law that starts a judicial inquiry rather than constituting a conviction.
- The probe follows three separate complaints: a February report by parents of a 5-year-old, a late-June complaint about alleged rapes and assaults on a 6-year-old, and a third claim of abuse from 2005–2009 that the complainant says returned to her memory after seeing the suspect’s photo online.
- The prosecution asked for pretrial detention but the judge instead set judicial supervision that forbids him from living in the Var, contacting the victims, or carrying out any activity involving minors.
- The accused denies all allegations and had been suspended from his role at the Hyères after-school center in February after the first complaint; prosecutors say the most recent alleged acts occurred in the course of his duties in January–February 2026.
- The case has been amplified by social-media exposure and doxxing that drew threats to the man, and it appears against a wider national backdrop in 2026 of numerous suspensions of after-school staff over suspected sexual or sexist violence.