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France makes international appeal over ex-teacher accused of raping 89 children

Seven pictures of Leveugle taken over several decades
Portraits, taken in different years and locations, of Jacques Leveugle, a 79-year-old man charged in 2024 for aggravated rape and sexual assault committed against 89 minors. Photograph: Gendarmerie nationale/AFP/Getty Images

French police have made a rare international appeal for victims and witnesses in the case of a 79-year-old former teacher accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 children across five continents from the 1960s until 2022.

Police in Grenoble said Jacques Leveugle, who has been in pretrial detention in France since April 2025, was a “textbook example” of a serial sexual offender in an unusually sprawling case spanning many countries from Germany to India over more than five decades.

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