The preacher’s lawyers filed an appeal against the municipal decree this Friday at 10:30 p.m. The hearing should be held this Saturday while Tariq Ramadan was expected this Sunday for a “literary lunch”.
It’s official. The city of Nice has taken a municipal ban against Tariq Ramadan’s “literary lunch” for disturbing public order, the newspaper announces. Release. The preacher wanted to ensure this lunch-conference on Sunday, June 4 around 12 p.m. in a place still kept secret.
Referral for freedom filed
Tariq Ramadan’s lawyers, Me Ouadie Elhamamouchi and Sefen Guez Guez, filed an interim release with the administrative court at 10:30 p.m. this Friday, announces Release, information confirmed by BFM Nice Côte d’Azur. The hearing is expected to be held this Saturday.
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, had announced that he wanted to take measures to prevent the preacher’s conference on the set of BFM Nice Côte d’Azur last Friday.
“Our city is not a city that can accept both those who have to answer for violence against women, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and racism”, justified Christian Estrosi last week.
The city councilor had also issued an order prohibiting the representation of the controversial comedian, Dieudonné. “These are subjects outside Nice and that I have never tolerated and that I will never tolerate”, he had hammered.
Invited on BFMTV, Tariq Ramadan announced on Monday that he still intended to go to Nice on Sunday June 4.
“If Mr. Estrosi decides that the city of Nice belongs to him and that he is the guardian of the dungeon, free to him, but freedom of expression is stronger than his decision”, had indicated Tariq Ramadan.
The preacher wanted to go to Nice to talk about the book “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. “It is a magnificently beautiful text (…) which speaks of this journey towards transcendence which lives in me with human beings who sometimes make mistakes and who come back and who can find themselves in the test”, had– he specified this Monday on BFMTV. Releaseabout fifty people were expected at the lunch-debate.
Last Wednesday the preacher was acquitted by a Swiss court before which he was prosecuted for rape and sexual coercion. At the end of the trial, the court considered that there were not enough material elements to carry its intimate conviction. The Swiss complainant has announced that she is appealing this decision.