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French prosecutors call for witnesses as 79-year-old former teacher is charged with sexual abuse of 89 minors across continents, in 55 years – suspect admits to killing his mother and aunt

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6bedd05fa146b5c67b9c6025984cac13 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290808&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Ex-teacher&comma; Jacques Leveugle&comma; 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 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-52be81dc1dadd1680a3e756ca1965fdb wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290808&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Leveugle allegedly committed the crimes against minors in Germany&comma; Switzerland&comma; Morocco&comma; Niger&comma; Algeria&comma; the Philippines&comma; India and Colombia <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8409f14c2be295dc246aecdb872d53e0 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290808&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>In his role as a freelance teacher and instructor in speleology&comma; his perverse acts also spread to the French overseas territory of New Caledonia <&sol;strong> &comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-43c3efa6edc6df582fee2ab18245b3bb wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290808&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The pedophile in his memoirs admitted to investigators that he smothered his mother with a pillow in the 1970s&comma; he also smothered his 92-year-old aunt in the 1990s <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1a6c9fd935601945ff8690fcfee834f1 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290808&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Prosecutors in Grenoble&comma; France have called for witnesses step forward as investigations into the two separate cases <strong>against the 79-year-old suspect unfold<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ff77322bcca047350a98f96a169cb777 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290808&semi;font-size&colon;14px"> <strong>First case is for the sexual abuse of 89 minors&comma; second case of double-homicide is related to the deaths of his mom and aunt <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Jacques-Leveugle-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493128" style&equals;"width&colon;182px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"> <strong>Jacques Leveugle<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A pedophile who is suspected of having raped nearly 100 minors and murdering his mother and aunt has been was charged in Grenoble&comma; France&period;<br>Ex-teacher&comma; 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&period;<br>On Tuesday&comma; the Grenoble public prosecutor&&num;8217&semi;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&period; <br>Jacques Leveugle investigators allege&comma; has also confessed that he murdered his mother and aunt decades ago&period;  <br>The number of victims was established from recovered writings compiled on a USB drive by the alleged pervert&comma; which refer to &&num;8216&semi;sexual relations&&num;8217&semi; with minors aged 13 to 17&period; <br>The incriminating documents organized in 15 volumes on the portable storage device was discovered by Leveugle&&num;8217&semi;s nephew&comma; who was &&num;8216&semi;questioning his uncle&&num;8217&semi;s emotional and sexual life&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Manteaux revealed on Tuesday&comma; adding that in the &&num;8216&semi;memoirs&&num;8217&semi;&comma; the suspect had also confessed to &&num;8216&semi;intentionally causing the deaths of two people&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;02&sol;Jacques-Leveugle-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-493131"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><br><strong>Handout released by France&&num;8217&semi;s Gendarmerie Nationale on February 10&comma; 2026 contains a montage of portraits of Jacques Leveugle taken in different years and locations during hunt for the fugitive<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In an unusual move&comma; French authorities named the suspect&comma; Jacques Leveugle&comma; who was born in 1946 in Annecy&comma; an Alpine town an hour&&num;8217&semi;s drive away from Grenoble&period;<br>Prosecutor Etienne Manteaux spoke to reporters in the southeastern city of Grenoble to publicize the case of the former teacher&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;This name must be known because the aim is to enable potential victims to come forward&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the prosecutor said&period;<br>Asked why prosecutors did not reveal the information at the beginning of the Leveugle investigation&comma; it was a &&num;8216&semi;somewhat unusual case&comma; and we wanted to first ensure the veracity of the facts&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Manteaux said&period;<br>Then &&num;8216&semi;it became essential to allow victims who could not be identified and who were not going to be heard to come forward&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he added&period;<br>Leveugle allegedly committed the crimes against minors in Germany&comma; Switzerland&comma; Morocco&comma; Niger&comma; Algeria&comma; the Philippines&comma; India&comma; Colombia&comma; and the French overseas territory of New Caledonia&comma; where he worked as a freelance teacher and instructor&period;<br>His varied roles included instructor of speleology&comma; or the study of caves&comma; and French teacher&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He traveled to these different countries and in each of these places where he settled to provide tutoring and teach&comma; he would meet young people and have sexual relations with them&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the prosecutor said&period;<br>The number of victims was established from writings compiled on a USB drive by the man&comma; which refer to &&num;8216&semi;sexual relations&&num;8217&semi; with minors&comma; between the ages of 13 and 17&period;<br>The USB stick on which the documents were stored by the man was discovered by his nephew&comma; who was &&num;8216&semi;questioning his uncle&&num;8217&semi;s emotional and sexual life&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Manteaux said&comma; adding that the USB &&num;8216&semi;contains 15 tomes of very dense material&comma; and investigators will review and read all of these writings and identify 89 minors&&num;8217&semi;&comma; he said&period;<br>In his &&num;8220&semi;memoirs&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Leveugle had written that he had &&num;8220&semi;killed two people&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Manteaux said&period;<br>During the investigation&comma; he confessed to suffocating his mother who was struggling with terminal cancer  with a pillow in the 1970s&period; He also admitted to suffocating his 92-year-old aunt&comma; also with a pillow&comma; in the 1990s&comma; the prosecutor said&period; <br>Leveugle had to travel and the aunt &&num;8216&semi;begged him not to go&&num;8217&semi;&period; By his admission&comma; &&num;8216&semi;He decided to kill her too&comma; so while she was asleep&comma; he took a pillow and suffocated her&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the prosecutor said at Tuesday&&num;8217&semi;s press conference&period;<br>The suspect &&num;8216&semi;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&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Manteaux said&period;<br>A separate murder investigation has been launched&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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