Swiss justice will move to Paris to hear Taris Ramadan indicted in two cases in France and accused by a third woman in Switzerland. He is targeted since April 13, 2018 by a complaint filed in Geneva for kidnapping and rape.

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Tariq Ramadan, targeted since April 13, 2018 by a complaint filed in Geneva for kidnapping and rape, will be heard by the Swiss courts in Paris. After a year and a half of procrastination between the French and Swiss magistrates, it will finally be the latter who will move to the French capital next autumn, learned Europe 1 and Libération de source close to the investigation.

"Unacceptable situation" for the complainant's lawyers

The plaintiff's lawyers had finally lodged an appeal against the slowness of Swiss justice on 3 July, denouncing "a denial of justice" and an "unacceptable situation" for their client. Since her complaint filed on 13 April 2018, Brigitte *, who accuses Tariq Ramadan of rape and kidnapping, but also of violence, in a hotel in Geneva in 2008, has been heard only once.

Five months later, the Geneva public prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "rape" and "sexual coercion" before the investigation skated. A series of hearings and confrontations were scheduled for February 28, March 14 and 21, but everything was canceled at the last minute.

"Risk of evasion of justice"

According to documents that Europe 1 has been able to consult, the French authorities have indicated to the Swiss court that "the release of the judicial control of Tariq Ramadan was not possible [...] with regard to the risk of evasion of the interested in French justice ".

Charged with rape and aggravated rape in two cases and charged by a third woman in France, the Islamologist, who has long denied contact with his accusers before recognizing "consensual" relations, has been under judicial control since leaving prison. provisional detention, in November 2018, after 10 months in prison. According to a source close to the investigation, Tariq Ramadan took liberties with his judicial control, having not responded to certain summonses.

Responding to the request of the French authorities to dispose of the file, the Swiss justice sent a copy of the complaint and police report in March and obtained that France executes a request for international mutual assistance, that is to say that it allows Swiss magistrates and investigators to come and hear the Islamologist in France. According to our information, this will be the case next autumn.

* The name has been changed