In February 2015, Soufiane Zitouni resigned from his teaching position at the school saying that the school fostered extremism and was indoctrinating political Islam while still receiving government funding.[17] Zitouni alleged that the school turned a blind eye when two of its students openly supported the Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack in January 2015.[2] The school filed a defamation complaint against Zitouni.[3]