Overview
- Grenoble prosecutors say Jacques Leveugle, 79, is charged with aggravated rape and sexual violence against 89 minors aged 13 to 17 spanning 1967 to 2022 in France and multiple other countries.
- Investigators derived the 89-victim count from detailed writings on a USB drive described as an inventory, which Leveugle’s nephew found and handed to Vizille police in 2022.
- Authorities report assaults documented across Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Niger, Algeria, the Philippines, India, Colombia, New Caledonia, and parts of France where he worked as a tutor or teacher.
- Leveugle has been in custody since February 2024, with a renewed detention after violating strict judicial supervision in April 2025, according to the prosecutor.
- A separate inquiry is examining his admissions to suffocating his mother in the 1970s and his 92-year-old aunt in the 1990s, as roughly 150 people have already given testimony in the broader case.