The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office directed the referral of the Swiss-Egyptian Islamic preacher, Tariq Ramadan, to the Criminal Court, accused of raping 4 women, and demanded that he appear for trial.
The accusations of rape filed by four women against Ramadan date back to the period between 2009 and 2016.Lomond” French.
In the fall of 2017, Ramadan was targeted by complaints from “Christelle” (a pseudonym) and Hend Ayari on charges of rape, which they had suffered years before in a Paris hotel.
In February 2018, Ramadan was charged twice with “rape” and “raping a weak person.” During that period, he was placed in pretrial detention, and remained there for ten months.
After initially denying any extramarital affair, he changed his position, in the summer of 2018, in light of hundreds of explicit messages (text and audio) revealed during the investigation.
Since then, Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, has argued that his relations were with the consent of the plaintiffs.
In February 2020, investigative judges added two indictments against him for raping two other women.
About five months ago, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed a fine for Ramadan for revealing in a book and on a television channel the identity of one of the women who accused him of raping them.
Ramadan was sentenced to pay a fine of 1,000 euros for revealing the real name of a woman who identified herself to the media as “Christelle” and accused him of raping her in a hotel room in Lyon (central eastern France) in 2009.
It is reported that in November 2000, he was initially sentenced to pay a fine of three thousand euros, including two thousand euros that included a stay of execution.
In Ramadan’s book “The Duty of Truth”, which was released in September 2019, Christelle’s real name was mentioned 84 times.
Ramadan also mentioned the name during an interview with BFMTV-RMC.
Ramadan’s lawyer, Uday Al-Hammamouchi, at the time indicated a “positive dynamic” for his client, expressing his “satisfaction” with his success in reducing the fine.