Paris (AFP)

The Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, already indicted for two rapes, is targeted by a new complaint in France, for a meeting rape that would have occurred in 2014, was learned from a source close to the file, confirming News from the Sunday and Europe News 1.

According to the two media, this complaint was lodged at the end of May by "a woman, now in her fifties, who was working as a radio journalist" and led the Paris public prosecutor's office to deliver a suppletive indictment.

The Muslim intellectual, who was an influential and controversial figure in European Islam, is already accused by three other women in France and another in Switzerland.

Since February 2, 2018, he is indicted for two rapes, including one on vulnerable person, charges he contests. For the third complaint, he is currently placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness.

Mr Ramadan is also due to be heard in the autumn in Paris by a Swiss prosecutor with a view to possible prosecution in Switzerland.

He was released in mid-November, under judicial supervision, after nine months of pre-trial detention.

In this new complaint cited by the two media, the woman accuses the Muslim intellectual of rapes in meeting with "a person of his staff" during a meeting for an interview on May 23, 2014 in the hotel room of M Ramadan in Lyon.

"It went very quickly, it was of an incredible violence," said the plaintiff to justice, according to statements cited by the JDD and Europe 1.

According to the complaint, the woman was also contacted by Mr. Ramadan on the Messenger application on January 28, 2019, claiming that he wanted to make a "proposal", "on a professional level", message to which she would not have not answered.

She says that the next day she was visited by two men. "They told me that Tariq Ramadan tried to reach me [?] And if I had the ill-intentioned ideas they could fix it," she said.

According to the JDD and Europe 1, the public prosecutor's office in Paris sent a suppletive indictment at the end of July, extending the investigation to rape in meetings, threats and intimidation. It is now up to the examining magistrates in charge of the investigation to pronounce or not a new indictment for these facts.

Contacted by AFP, Mr. Ramadan's lawyer was unreachable Sunday morning.

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