"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. The Grenoble prosecutor, Etienne Manteaux, said Leveugle had also told police he had killed his terminally ill mother and later his elderly aunt by suffocating them with pillows."
"Appealing for potential victims and witnesses to contact French police, Manteaux said Leveugle had worked with children in Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Niger, Algeria, the Philippines, India, Colombia and the French overseas territory of New Caledonia from the 1960s to 2022. He travelled in these different countries and in every place where he settled to work as a tutor, or teacher, he met young people, Manteaux said."
Jacques Leveugle, 79, is accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 children across five continents from the 1960s until 2022. He has been held in pretrial detention in France since April 2025 and was placed under formal investigation in February 2024 for aggravated rape and sexual assault of minors. He reportedly confessed to suffocating his terminally ill mother and later his elderly aunt. He worked without formal teaching qualifications as a tutor, educator, sports monitor and youth camp leader, and worked with young offenders and in a children’s home in multiple countries. An international appeal requests victims and witnesses to come forward; images of the suspect at different ages were circulated online.
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