Overview
- City officials said they alerted the Paris prosecutor on Tuesday after learning two siblings placed in a foyer were shaved in July, noting authorities see no deliberate humiliating intent in this case.
- The City of Paris has summoned the head of the association running the home and scheduled meetings with the family this week and early next week.
- Fondation OVE, which manages the implicated foyer, says the cuts were shorter than expected as part of lice management and asserts the mother’s consent, adding it has opened an internal review.
- The children’s mother describes the July visit as traumatizing and, according to her lawyer, plans to file a complaint over what she calls a grave act of violence.
- Separately, prosecutors are investigating the earlier incident captured on video as alleged violence by persons in authority, and the health and family minister has filed her own report and tasked the social-affairs inspectorate.