YouAbout twenty investigators stormed the town hall of Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) this Wednesday morning. According to information from Pointthe investigation was entrusted to the judicial police department (SDPJ) of Hauts-de-Seine. The search targeted several city departments, including city planning and human resources. This comes at a time when an in-depth audit by the regional audit chamber (CRC) of Île-de-France has been underway at city hall for several months.
This search mainly follows reports regarding Stéphane Tchouhan, chief of staff of Colombes city hall (EELV), including The main thing is reported last May. It is true that the third city of Hauts-de-Seine has been of concern to the government since the prefecture suspected that a small group of people were practicing Islamic conversion in the city to advance a religious agenda.
It all started on May 7 when the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine, Alexandre Brugère, closed the Lissen Institute, an undeclared Koranic school located in a small and hidden street in Colombes. Officially, the company closed its doors to fire safety violations. Beyond technical shortcomings, the prefecture is also firm and talks about “Quran schools”.
“Not a subject,” according to the mayor
As The main thing is In detail, state services are being strangled by the impact of its leader, Stéphane Tchouhan, nicknamed “Abderrahman” and therefore chief of staff of Colombes city hall since 2023. Behind the “academic support” of this “language and digital training center”, there are Islamic awareness courses from the age of 3, theology and the Koran. The “baseless” accusations against Stéphane Tchouhan, who were contacted at the time by The main thing is.
The cabinet director holds many posts in Colombes, where he is involved in a dozen local associations, including Musc (Muslim Colombes), which was formed in 2013. This association, whose mosque is known for its close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, also has the attention of city hall. Two of Musc’s founders sat there: a city councilman and his chief of staff. “Colombes is a textbook case of entryism,” he observed Point source close to the case. There are rare cases where political and associative aspects are so closely related to religion. » Relationships between the association and elected officials will be at the heart of the investigation.
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Two weeks after the closure of the Lissen Institute and the media uproar that followed, the Mayor of Colombes, Patrick Chaimovitch, has finally broken his silence. At a city council meeting last May, the environmental council member dismissed accusations of entryism in his opening statement. He didn’t let the opposition react. In response, most elected opposition officials left the room.
In his solitary speech, the mayor elected in June 2020 defended his chief of staff and was ironic about the suspicions of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to him a “mystery” accompanied by “pseudo-disclosures” on the set of the “Bolloré group” as part of a “communications operation by the Ministry of the Interior”. “For now, that is not a subject,” Mayor Patrick Chaimovitch stressed this Tuesday in an interview with Pariswhere he announced that he would run again in the 2026 municipal elections.
