Irina Khodova-Jussiame Archigny’s hairdressing salon was closed by the gendarmes. Reason? His manager, a 58-year-old Russian, does not have the required diploma. Complaint and investigation underway.
“Closed for discrimination”. This is the lapidary word that can be read on the front of the hairdressing salon opposite the town hall of Archigny (1). The manager, Irina Khodova-Jussiame, 58, of Russian nationality, has lowered the curtain. Constraint and force. After the visit of the gendarmerie.
You don’t have a diploma, you close tonight It was Thursday, February 10, 2022, late afternoon. Three gendarmes arrived in my living room and said to me: “You don’t have the BP (professional patent), you close tonight! “I was scared, I’ve never done anything wrong, I didn’t understand, I’ve been working as a hairdresser for 10 years in Archigny and they land. I just had time to finish a client’s haircut… , says the manager, her voice with a Russian accent still strangled by emotion and shock, ten days after the events.
The descent of the gendarmes is not without reason. She follows a complaint from the National Union of Hairdressing Companies for illegal exercise of the profession, reveals the public prosecutor of Poitiers, Cyril Lacombe, who confirms the opening of a judicial inquiry (read below).
To practice the profession, the law obliges a manager or one of his employees, to have the professional certificate (BP) of hairdressing. However, the interested party does not hold the required diploma. At least not its French equivalent.
Diploma, but in Russia only
Her husband, Jean-Louis Jussiame, 70, a retired builder, admits: She certainly doesn’t have the BP, but Irina has the professional Russian hairdressing certificate. She was a qualified hairdresser from Saint-Petersburg. We have all the certificates of the employers of his country.
He explains that his wife made efforts in vain and pleads her good faith: She speaks French, took a preparatory course for the installation and attempted a VAE (validation of acquired experience) but was rejected by part of the jury when everything was very well…
Locally, this business begins to make noise and arouses a certain me. In this small commune of Chtelleraudais with just over 1,000 inhabitants, people take up the cause of the Russian hairdresser who, according to the inhabitants met on site and the mayor, has been working for ten years to general satisfaction.
A petition launches But, dura lex sed lex. To pass a professional patent, it takes two years, she is 58 years old… , is demoralized the mayor, Jacky Roy, who questioned the deputy of the district, Jean-Michel Clment and wrote to the sub-prefect of Chtellerault.
For his part, Irina’s husband has launched a petition, Committee to support our hairdresser Irina Jussiame, which has collected nearly 200 signatures to date. If they tell us to close, we’ll close… Client grandmothers are outraged because Irina even took her car to pick them up and drive them to the salon. Irina is upset. It’s a crazy story. Someone may be mad at us…
(1) There is a second independent hairdressing salon in the town.
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A denunciation?
Archigny, the comments are going well. Some speak of denunciation for unfair competition. The mayor, Jacky Roy, wonders: Why was his situation tolerated for seven years? Where does this closure initiative come from? We were happy with this installation. Customers were satisfied and complained about the closing of the salon.
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The hairdresser heard Thursday, February 24
Contact, Cyril Lacombe, public prosecutor of Poitiers, confirmed: There is legal proceedings in progress for the illegal exercise of a craft activity. The case was brought to the attention of the courts in the context of a complaint made by the National Union of Hairdressing Companies, which verifies that the various salons are indeed holders of the appropriate diplomas. However, the current manager and head of the show would not have taken the necessary steps. It is in this context that she was summoned and will be heard on Thursday February 24, 2022 at the gendarmerie. Pending her hearing, the regularization of her situation, she was invited to cease her activity. It is not strictly speaking an administrative or judicial closure. We are waiting to hear it to know if the offense is constituted.
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his account since 2015
Irina Khodova, 58, is of Russian nationality. She arrived at Archigny in 2010 and married Jean-Louis Jussiame, retired builder, 70 years old. She began working in 2012 as an employee of Marie-Franoise de Souza’s hairdressing salon located behind the town’s church. The person in charge does not have the diploma but employs a hairdresser who had the required certificate.
In 2015, Mrs. de Souza sold Irina Jussiame the business via a notarial deed and rented the premises to the municipality that owned it (commercial lease). The Russian hairdresser is then her account. In February 2020, her husband, Jean-Louis Jussiame, acquired a more prominent house on the village square, renovated it and transformed it into a hairdressing salon for his wife.
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