The Court of Cassation has ruled. Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan has been referred to the Paris departmental criminal court for aggravated rape and rape of three women between 2009 and 2016, we learned this Wednesday. He disputes these accusations.
On June 27, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered a trial for Tariq Ramadan for aggravated rape of a woman and two rapes of two others. The Islamologist had requested a general dismissal of the case. But a trial will take place.
Sentenced to three years in prison in Switzerland
On July 7, 2023, after six years of investigation, two investigating judges ordered the dismissal of Tariq Ramadan for rapes against “Christelle”, Henda Ayari, Mounia Rabbouj and a fourth woman.
In its judgment of June 27, of which AFP was informed, the court of appeal dismissed the case of Mounia Rabbouj, and took the opposite view on the merits of the investigating magistrates and the investigation, which had focused on the influence, by retaining violence as the main stratagem of the rapes attributed to Tariq Ramadan. In this highly publicized and emblematic procedure of the #MeToo era, the complainants described particularly brutal sexual relations.
The story of Mounia Rabbouj, who presented a dress stained with the Islamologist’s semen, forced the intellectual, who had initially denied it, to admit in mid-2018 the existence of adulterous relations with her and former mistresses, marked by “domination”, rough but “consented”, a major turning point in this issue.
In Switzerland, the preacher was sentenced at the end of August to three years in prison, including one year, for rape and sexual coercion in 2008. His lawyers appealed to the Swiss Federal Court, the supreme court of the Confederation.
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