Judicial epilogue of the first case of sexual violence involving Tariq Ramadan. The Swiss Islamologist, accused of having raped a woman in 2008 in Geneva, was fixed on his fate on Wednesday, after a trial in which the prosecutor requested three years in prison, half of which is closed. Tariq Ramadan was thus acquitted of the charge of rape and sexual coercion by a Swiss court, which ruled that there was no evidence against him.
The plaintiff immediately announced an appeal. Three years in prison, half of which was firm, was requested last week by the prosecutor.
Tariq Ramadan, 60 years old today, was tried for the first time for rape. He is threatened with a trial in France for similar facts. His highly anticipated trial revealed two opposing versions of the facts. The theologian, a contested figure in European Islam, denied any sexual act and said he was the victim of a “trap”. Converted to Islam, the complainant, “Brigitte”, who chose this pseudonym to protect herself from threats, assured on the other hand that the Islamologist had subjected her to brutal sexual acts accompanied by beatings and insults in the room. of the Geneva hotel where he was staying the night of October 28, 2008.
“Brigitte”, 57, filed a complaint ten years after the facts
During the three days of hearing, last week in Geneva, a screen separated them so that she did not have to see it. “Brigitte”, now 57, filed a complaint ten years after the events, in 2018, encouraged, she explained, by the fact that other women had done the same against Tariq Ramadan in France. . The two agree that they spent the night together in the hotel room, which she left early in the morning to return to her home.
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