A French football team controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood imposes prayers, religious rules and excludes women.
The French Interior Ministry's report on the Muslim Brotherhood includes the club within the network of sports associations under Islamist influence.
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Information about the Fontenay-aux-Roses football club has been revealed in a investigation published by the newspaper The Figaro, which documents, from direct testimonies and administrative sources, the progressive implementation of religious practices and community dynamics within the football section of the Association Sportive Fontenaisienne (ASF), a municipal sports club in the Hauts-de-Seine (Île-de-France), a suburb of Paris.
The research is framed within the in the context of The French Interior Ministry's report on the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam, which identifies 127 sports associations with links to separatist dynamics. Although the report does not publish nominal lists, The Figaro addresses the case of Fontenay-aux-Roses because is included among the entities subject to administrative monitoring. The report identified sport as a priority sector for Islamist outreach, particularly effective in reaching young people and minors outside the strictly religious framework.
Prayers, religious rules and proselytising within the club
The investigation of The Figaro Documents the presence regular and visible Muslim religious practices within the football section of the Association Sportive Fontenaisienne. According to witnesses, matches have been held there. Prayers in the changing rooms and on the pitch At the Panorama Stadium, a municipal sports facility. The situation has been documented with photographs that have reached the French intelligence services.
In addition to the Prayers said in the changing rooms and on the pitch, several witnesses explain that during club activities, especially on away trips, The coaches control the players' food., checking the lunchboxes and throwing away foods containing pork, with the de facto imposition of an exclusively halal diet for all participants.
These practices are accompanied by’Other religious rules of conductMandatory use of Islamic greeting formulas instead of civil greetings and a Constant confusion between sporting activity and religious practice. This set of channels, repeatedly described by families and observers, has helped to shape a closed environment structured around religious codes.
Club closure and reopening with no changes
In 2017, the club was subject to municipal interventions after similar religious practices were detected, which led to the suspension of several coaches and the temporary closure of the adult teams. Moreover, the prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine ordered the Closure of the mosque frequented by the club's coaches, after sermons described as an apology for terrorism.
Despite the documented history between 2015 and 2017, the council authorised the Reopening of the senior section in 2020, after the club formally committed to respecting the principle of secularism. According to the investigation by The Figaro, Some of the figures who had already stepped aside gradually returned to carrying out functions within the club., and religious practices resumed without any effective control mechanisms being put in place.
Women barred and Muslim families who withdraw their children
The investigation of The Figaro notes the Disappearance of women's football within the club's football section. Despite the existence of around twenty girls willing to train and continue competing, The women's team has not been reactivated since the club's partial closure in 2017.. The players eventually joined clubs in other municipalities, while the ASF's management cited logistical difficulties, a lack of adequate facilities and security concerns, without offering a stable alternative within the municipal club.
Also The Figaro recounts the case of Muslim families who decide to withdraw their children from the club In the face of the imposition of religious practices. The testimony of a Muslim father He explains that he does not accept sport being used to instil religious rules that he himself does not impose at home.. According to this account, control over food, the obligation to follow religious codes in greetings and behaviour, and the constant presence of prayers have led some families to to leave the club discreetly, without public conflict, but with an effective withdrawal from municipal sport.
State surveillance and municipal neglect
The State services They confirm to Le Figaro that they are monitoring the club, as reflected by its inclusion in the Ministry of the Interior's report on the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam. Sources familiar with the matter confirm that the documented practices have prompted prefectural surveillance measures, interventions by territorial intelligence services and ad hoc requests, particularly following unauthorised prayers in municipal sports facilities.
On the other hand, The council has not considered it appropriate to take measures. that would impede the continuation of the practices described. Despite the background, the temporary closure of the club in 2017 and the formal commitments to respect secularism made in 2020, The football section has continued to operate without any substantial changes to its internal regulations.. This asymmetry between state control and local response explains why religious and community dynamics have remained within a club that uses public facilities and resources.
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