Islamist radicals are infiltrating France’s child protection homes, targeting vulnerable minors for grooming, prostitution, drug trafficking, and terrorism, according to a damning report by legal experts Manon Sieraczek and Thierry Froment.
The report reveals that poorly funded, barely regulated state shelters have become hunting grounds for Islamist networks, including those linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. These facilities are failing to protect children, many of whom are drawn in by radical preachers, online propaganda, or Islamic associations allowed free access under the guise of charity.
Children—especially girls—are recruited into prostitution with little supervision over their whereabouts or phone use. Boys often end up in drug gangs or terrorist groups. Lawyer Michel Amas estimates 20,000 minors are now involved in prostitution, calling it a “pandemic that no one is talking about.”
The problem is especially grave among refugee children, particularly Syrians brought in by the French state. With many speaking only Arabic and lacking interpreters, authorities can’t properly assess whether they’re being groomed.
A critical flaw lies in France’s own legal loopholes: care shelters are treated like private homes rather than government institutions. As a result, they’re not bound by the country’s secularism laws, allowing Islamist groups to push religious rules—forcing girls to wear veils, barring them from swimming, and even holding Muslim Brotherhood-style prayer sessions on state property.
Shockingly, 95% of shelters have no standard protocol for radicalisation. Most cases reported to overwhelmed juvenile judges are dropped. Intelligence agencies are rarely involved.
The report also points to Secours Islamique France, an NGO allegedly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, as playing a role in this infiltration—though the group denies any links.
This exposure comes after another government report revealed the Muslim Brotherhood’s decades-long strategy to infiltrate European institutions and dominate Muslim communities by embedding radicals in schools, sports clubs, and even dating apps.
The consequences are already visible. Teenagers are increasingly behind Islamist attacks, like the March stabbing of a rabbi in Orléans or the 2023 case where two teens tested explosives for ISIS.
Once again, the French government is failing to defend its secular foundations—sacrificing its children to radical ideologues under the banner of tolerance.