The facts would have occurred in May 2014, in Lyon. A fourth complaint was filed in France in the case Tariq Ramadan, already accused of rape by three women in France. Including her accuser in Switzerland, it is the fifth woman who denounces the sexual violence of the Islamologist, according to the information of Europe 1 with the JDD .
Rape in meeting
This time, it is a quinquagenarian in the Lyon region who accuses him of rape in meeting, according to a complaint dated May 31, 2019 that Europe 1 was able to consult. On 26 July, the Paris prosecutor's office sent a suppletive indictment to the investigating judges in charge of the case by extending the investigation to rape in meetings, threats and intimidation.
"Mr. Tariq Ramadan contacted me on Facebook in 2013 on the pretext that we had friends in common, I had not found, it was an excuse," begins the complainant. The few exchanges, switch by SMS. The Islamologist "tries approaches" while the fifties claim that, for his part, "there was no act of seduction." At the time a journalist in a local media, she ended up accepting a meeting for an "unrestrained" interview: "I thought I'd make a scoop and show its contradictions."
"The more I struggled, the more they beat me"
According to this woman, the appointment takes place at the Sofitel Lyon, May 23, 2014. "For the sake of discretion", since he is "a personality", Tariq Ramadan invites him to perform the interview in his after. What she refuses at first, but he "reassured" by saying that she has "nothing to fear especially as a person of his staff was present" and would stay all along.
"It went very quickly, it was of an incredible violence," continues the fifties today, in his account recorded by the justice on July 12th. "He grabbed my arm, twisted it ... he told me 'come on little whore' and threw me on the floor," she continues. While the friend of Tariq Ramadan holds her by the hair, she says to have undergone several penetrations. "I insulted her, it excited her even more," she wrote. She claims to have been raped several times by both men. "I struggled with my feet, my legs, my hands, and the more I struggled, the more they beat me, they insulted me."
"You do not know how powerful I am"
The two men refuse to return her underwear and let her go, she said, which forced her to stay two hours in the room. During this time, Tariq Ramadan enters his phone, without code. "I think he erased our Facebook posts because they were gone."
As she tries to leave and says she is going to complain, he says, "You do not know how powerful I am." Then, faced with his determination "Tariq Ramadan has changed strategy", tries a caress on his face and "baratiner". He even proposes to carry out the interview, says the complaint again.
When the journalist "in shock" approached the door with her belongings, he blocked her and said to her "in a soft and honeyed voice ... that he thought I liked it but that I did not know it. not". "His speech was absurd in relation to the situation," says the fifties to investigators. She finally promised not to tell anyone and not to complain. "As a result, I moved, stopped working, divorced and gained a lot of weight," writes the woman, who says she is "depressed" and says she tried to end her life six months later.
Threats and intimidation
But as the case broke out, and last January the investigators begin to hear several women Tariq Ramadan attended and whose photos he has stored on his computer found in a search, she claims to have received a message from the police. Islamologist: "I have a proposal for you, professionally." Then a video call that she lets pass. The next day, in the early evening, there are two men, "quarantine", who sound at home. "They told me that Tariq Ramadan tried to reach me [...] and if I had the ill-intentioned ideas they could fix that."
The prosecutor's office of Paris entrusted this fourth complaint to the judges in charge of the first three and expanded the investigation for rape in meetings but also threat and intimidation to determine a victim not to file a complaint. Joined by Europe 1, the lawyer of Tariq Ramadan, Me Emmanuel Marsigny, did not wish to make comments. The Islamologist is already indicted for two of the first three complaints in France, for rape and aggravated rape cases, and placed under assisted witness status for the third.