GRENOBLE, France: French prosecutors on Tuesday (Feb 10) introduced {that a} 79-year-old former educator had been charged in 2024 for aggravated rape and sexual assault dedicated towards 89 minors in a number of nations between 1967 and 2022.
Prosecutor Etienne Manteaux spoke to reporters within the southeastern metropolis of Grenoble to publicise the case and enchantment for witnesses and another potential victims to come back ahead.
In an uncommon transfer, he named the suspect, Jacques Leveugle, born in 1946 in Annecy, an Alpine city an hour’s drive away from Grenoble.
He has been in custody since his indictment in 2024, the prosecutor mentioned.
The crimes towards the minors have been allegedly dedicated in Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Niger, Algeria, the Philippines, India, Colombia, and the French abroad territory of New Caledonia, the place he labored as a contract trainer and teacher, Manteaux mentioned.
His various roles included teacher of speleology, or the science of caves and French trainer.
The variety of victims was established from writings compiled on a USB drive by the person, which check with “sexual relations” with minors aged 13 to 17.
The USB stick on which the paperwork have been saved by the person was found by his nephew, who was “questioning his uncle’s emotional and sexual life”, Manteaux added.
It’s a doc of “15 tomes”, he mentioned.
Throughout the investigation, the person additionally confessed to suffocating his mom, a terminally unwell most cancers affected person, with a pillow within the Seventies, in keeping with the prosecutor.
He additionally suffocated his 92-year-old aunt “whereas she was asleep” – additionally with a pillow – within the Nineteen Nineties, the prosecutor mentioned.
In his “memoirs”, the person had written that he had “killed two folks”, Manteaux mentioned.
