The investigation against the Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, indicted for rapes he contests, has been extended to events in Paris in 2015 and 2016, was learned Sunday concordant sources, confirming information of the JDD .
The Paris prosecutor's office issued a "suppletive indictment" on 10 September extending the referral to the investigating judge in charge of the Ramadan inquiry "to two new potential victims," a judicial source told AFP. . The referral relates to testimonies collected by the police officers of the criminal brigade from two women, identified on documents found in the computers of the Muslim intellectual, said a source close to the file. The two women, who did not file a complaint, claim to have been sexually abused by the Muslim intellectual, one in November-December 2015 and the other in March 2016. Both spoke of ".
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"I asked him to be sweeter, but he said to me 'it's your fault, you deserve it' (...) and that it was necessary to obey, what I did," reported the one of these women, whose testimony was consulted by AFP. "It is of another order that physical rape, it goes beyond (...) there is a moral rape," explained the second. "He has such a hold on you that we do everything he asks us ... But this relationship has been granted, yes," she said.
Charged since February 2018 for the rape of two women in France
A long-time influential but controversial figure in European Islam, Tariq Ramadan, 57, has been under investigation since February 2018 for the rape of two women in France, in 2009 and 2012. The Muslim intellectual, who has spent nearly ten months in pre-trial detention before being released in November, initially denied any sexual relationship with these women before referring to "consensual relationships". Two other "rape" complaints were filed in March 2018 and July 2019 and are under investigation. Tariq Ramadan is also accused of rape by a woman in Switzerland, and must be heard on this case in the coming weeks in Paris.
The widening of the investigation into these new suspicions of rape comes as Tariq Ramada launched a media counter-attack in mid-September, with the publication of a book ("Duty of truth"), which denounces a "trap". and denies any "hold" on his sexual partners. "The definition of the right-of-way has become extensive, and in the Ramadan case, a consenting woman may be violated with her consent," denounces the preacher in this book.