Ex-teacher, Jacques Leveugle, has been in custody since 2024 when he was charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault committed against 89 minors in multiple countries between 1967 and 2022

Leveugle allegedly committed the crimes against minors in Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Niger, Algeria, the Philippines, India and Colombia

In his role as a freelance teacher and instructor in speleology, his perverse acts also spread to the French overseas territory of New Caledonia ,

The pedophile in his memoirs admitted to investigators that he smothered his mother with a pillow in the 1970s, he also smothered his 92-year-old aunt in the 1990s

Prosecutors in Grenoble, France have called for witnesses step forward as investigations into the two separate cases against the 79-year-old suspect unfold

First case is for the sexual abuse of 89 minors, second case of double-homicide is related to the deaths of his mom and aunt

A pedophile who is suspected of having raped nearly 100 minors and murdering his mother and aunt has been was charged in Grenoble, France.
Ex-teacher, Jacques Leveugle has been in custody since 2024 when he was charged in 2024 for aggravated rape and sexual assault committed against minors in multiple countries over a period of 55 years.
On Tuesday, the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office launched an appeal for witnesses concerning the 79-year-old suspect after charging the 79-year-old former educator with rape and sexual assault of 89 minors between 1967 and 2022. 
Jacques Leveugle investigators allege, has also confessed that he murdered his mother and aunt decades ago. 
The number of victims was established from recovered writings compiled on a USB drive by the alleged pervert, which refer to ‘sexual relations’ with minors aged 13 to 17.
The incriminating documents organized in 15 volumes on the portable storage device was discovered by Leveugle’s nephew, who was ‘questioning his uncle’s emotional and sexual life,’ Manteaux revealed on Tuesday, adding that in the ‘memoirs’, the suspect had also confessed to ‘intentionally causing the deaths of two people.’

Handout released by France’s Gendarmerie Nationale on February 10, 2026 contains a montage of portraits of Jacques Leveugle taken in different years and locations during hunt for the fugitive

In an unusual move, French authorities named the suspect, Jacques Leveugle, who was born in 1946 in Annecy, an Alpine town an hour’s drive away from Grenoble.
Prosecutor Etienne Manteaux spoke to reporters in the southeastern city of Grenoble to publicize the case of the former teacher.
‘This name must be known because the aim is to enable potential victims to come forward,’ the prosecutor said.
Asked why prosecutors did not reveal the information at the beginning of the Leveugle investigation, it was a ‘somewhat unusual case, and we wanted to first ensure the veracity of the facts,’ Manteaux said.
Then ‘it became essential to allow victims who could not be identified and who were not going to be heard to come forward,’ he added.
Leveugle allegedly committed the crimes against minors in Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Niger, Algeria, the Philippines, India, Colombia, and the French overseas territory of New Caledonia, where he worked as a freelance teacher and instructor.
His varied roles included instructor of speleology, or the study of caves, and French teacher.
‘He traveled to these different countries and in each of these places where he settled to provide tutoring and teach, he would meet young people and have sexual relations with them,’ the prosecutor said.
The number of victims was established from writings compiled on a USB drive by the man, which refer to ‘sexual relations’ with minors, between the ages of 13 and 17.
The USB stick on which the documents were stored by the man was discovered by his nephew, who was ‘questioning his uncle’s emotional and sexual life’, Manteaux said, adding that the USB ‘contains 15 tomes of very dense material, and investigators will review and read all of these writings and identify 89 minors’, he said.
In his “memoirs”, Leveugle had written that he had “killed two people”, Manteaux said.
During the investigation, he confessed to suffocating his mother who was struggling with terminal cancer  with a pillow in the 1970s. He also admitted to suffocating his 92-year-old aunt, also with a pillow, in the 1990s, the prosecutor said. 
Leveugle had to travel and the aunt ‘begged him not to go’. By his admission, ‘He decided to kill her too, so while she was asleep, he took a pillow and suffocated her,’ the prosecutor said at Tuesday’s press conference.
The suspect ‘justifies his actions by saying that he would like someone to do the same for him if he found himself in this end-of-life situation,’ Manteaux said.
A separate murder investigation has been launched.