An 18-year-old Afghan intern is under criminal investigation after allegedly exposing himself and touching his erect penis in front of two second-grade girls during his placement at a primary school in Düsseldorf. Police have searched his apartment and seized his mobile phone. The incident has infuriated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has called for his deportation in a video produced about the incident.
The alleged flashing at Brehm School took place on March 9 during afternoon care and only came to light only after a father called the school.
A spokeswoman for the Düsseldorf district government told Bild it had been an unobserved moment at a sink — though a teacher was in fact present in the room at the time.
🇩🇪🔴An Afghan intern allegedly exposed his erect penis to 2nd grade students at German elementary school. Now, the AfD is calling for his deportation.
He also confessed to police that he groped the class teacher’s buttocks.
The 18-year-old Afghan intern is now under criminal… pic.twitter.com/pu7AqlKptZ
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 23, 2026The teacher had been showing the class a film and was unaware of what was happening nearby. After the child witnessed the Afghan touching his penis and reported it to her parents, the school subsequently banned the intern from the premises, according to Bild newspaper.
The case did not stop there. The same teacher recalled a separate incident from three days earlier, on March 6, in which the intern had grabbed her buttocks.
She had initially written it off as accidental contact, but the second incident changed her assessment entirely. Notably, neither the school nor its sponsoring organization reported either incident to the authorities — it was the teacher herself who went to the police.
An investigator familiar with the case told Bild: “Unfortunately, we often see this with regard to crimes in schools, where schools prefer to keep a low profile.”
The teacher was due to give a further statement to the police this week but fell ill unexpectedly.
When questioned by police, the young Afghan admitted to groping the teacher. Since he holds asylum seeker status, officers notified the immigration authorities following his interrogation. His internship at the school had been scheduled to last three weeks. The examination of his confiscated phone is still underway.
The Düsseldorf public prosecutor’s office confirmed to Bild that an investigation is open but declined to provide further details, citing the age of those involved.
The AfD produced a video about the incident, describing the Afghan as someone who has “never known mixed-gender schools before. In Afghanistan, girls are excluded from the school system. During Tarek’s internship, something happened that left everyone stunned. The Afghan dropped his trousers and exposed himself to two little girls in the classroom, and this despite the fact that even the teacher was in the room, who claims not to have noticed anything.”
The report further notes that the incident only came to light when the girls in the school spoke to their parents.
“The parents of the traumatized girls had to arrange this on their own. Tarek was banned from the school grounds and is not allowed to continue his internship. No further consequences,” the video reads.
The party further states that the Afghan “does not belong in the classroom, he belongs on an airplane. Back to Afghanistan.”
This is not the first time a foreigner working in a German educational system has been accused of gross misconduct. A Syrian intern was accused of molesting two 4-year-old children in a Neubrandenburg kindergarten, according to police, in 2022.
