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In late May, a fourth complaint was filed against Tariq Ramadan for rape, as revealed by Europe 1 and JDD on Sunday. But in addition to this new element, the investigation progresses around the accusations of the first three French complainants - a fifth woman accuses him in Switzerland. While the Islamologist is indicted in two of these cases and placed under judicial control, Europe 1 reveals two advances of investigators in the case: a technical counter-expertise that contradicts the version of one of the complainants, but also interviews conducted by the police and questioning the notion of "influence" that would exercise the academic.
There is first these SMS, which had forced Tariq Ramadan to recognize a sexual relationship, which he says consented, after months of denials. Exhumed by Chrystelle *, the second woman to lodge a complaint against him, on an old mobile phone, these 255 messages were truncated and out of order. According to information from Europe 1, a counter-expertise computer could put some in order. And contrary to what she argued, including in front of the judges, they do not date from before the rape she denounces.
"If I had a bad time I would be gone"
According to our information, here is the exchange of 10 and 11 October 2009, the next day and the day after the facts denounced, as reconstituted by the expert, and we have not changed the spelling:
- Chrystelle *: "[message truncated] .. thank you for these moments"
- Tariq Ramadan: "I felt your embarrassment, sorry for my" violence "I liked ... You still want? Not disappointed?"
Then, 2:30 later: "You did not like, I'm sorry [Chrystelle]"
- Chrystelle *: "[...] we do not learn in 1 days to play his beautiful instrument but we do body with him we can exacerbate its limits and make it unique.I do not even know if I like you, I had afraid to ask you, I was afraid of your answer ... I care about you and I like you "
- Tariq Ramadan: "I waited a day yesterday for a message yesterday to finally read reproaches and disappointment ... what do you want me to add to that ... It pains me and it's ugly"
- Chrystelle *: "[truncated] next time how to tame me to the maximum [...] if I spent a bad time I would have left .. I stayed and I gave you more than anyone and I miss your skin ... you m Missed as soon as I passed the door [...] "
"An unacceptable manipulation of justice"
"The civil party has tried to take advantage of the lack of a date to say that they were sent a month before the meeting.This additional expertise provides objective evidence of his lie.They are much later," commented 1 Me Emmanuel Marsigny, the lawyer of Tariq Ramadan, for whom "all the accusation collapses definitively".
Denouncing a "very serious" situation and an "unacceptable manipulation of justice", the lawyer "expects the prosecution and the judges to quickly draw all the consequences". Last February, he unsuccessfully requested the withdrawal of the indictment of his client.
For his part, the lawyer Chrystelle * Me Eric Morain does not question the validity of this expertise, but he believes that these messages "do not change anything." "My client regrets not remembering it earlier, but the traumatic phenomena of memory are known," says the lawyer, who insists: "it is the hold and the fear that dictate these messages, let's remember that at that time, Mr. Ramadan was invited everywhere, he went to see the Pope, he was elected among the most influential men. "
"Take in something that exceeded me"
An aura that appears in another aspect of the case, also revealed by Europe 1: the testimonies of five women, that investigators have identified from the 800 or so "sexy" or sexually explicit photos found in computers searched at Tariq Ramadan. If a first woman, an active member of her support committee, denies any relationship with the Islamologist, two others assume their liaison perfectly. One, libertine assumed, even told investigators have reserved for eight years his "exclusive" Tariq Ramadan - who asked him - before being "tired". She also says that she joined the academic support group last June, because "for [she], he is not a rapist".
But the auditions of the last two women question, they, the notion of hold. The first, about thirty years old, recounts two meetings at the end of 2015, after many exchanges and while she is weakened by the death of her mother: "he wanted to know everything about me" . During an appointment with Tariq Ramadan at the hotel, this young woman describes very violent sex. "I did not like it but I did what he asked me to stop it," she explains to the Crim investigators, adding: "I was caught in something that exceeded ". Asked to return to see the Islamologist a second time she replied: "I was under his influence, he made me feel guilty."
"It's a different order than a physical rape"
The fifth woman also describes intense exchanges during which she "tells all her life" without the Islamolgue does not confide in return. She finds him in March 2016 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Place de la Republique, in Paris, and details a sexual relationship she describes as "brutal", while confirming that she did not show anything, neither satisfaction nor disapproval: "I do not say anything, I was scared at that moment, it's complicated to explain."
She will never see him again, but says he continued to write to her: "I was very in love, under control, I wanted to keep in touch." Questioned by the police about her consent during this sexual relationship, she leaves a silence of several seconds - which they annot in the minutes -, before answering that she was consenting. Then questioned about her hesitation, she answers: "It's still Tariq Ramadan, it's not anything, it's another order that a physical rape, it goes beyond, there is hold, there is a moral rape, he has such a hold on you that he is doing everything he asks of us ... There should be another offense for this kind of person. "
"He adapts to the people he has in front of him, he is master in the art of manipulating, [...] he goes to push a person to its limits," said this woman. Asked about her point of view on the case, the essence of which is known, such as the complainants' testimonies and their contradictions, she said: "It is very difficult to explain, I imagine that like me it is difficult to to be in touch with him afterwards. " None of the women interviewed by the investigators wished to file a complaint.
* The name has been changed