Justice: Tariq Ramadan indicted for the rape of two other women

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Already charged since February 2018 for two rapes, Tariq Ramadan was indicted for the rape of two other women, after an interrogation of about five hours at the Paris Court, Thursday, February 13. Free since November 2018 after more than nine months of detention, the Swiss Islamologist, who disputes all these accusations, remains under judicial supervision.

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Tariq Ramadan is now under investigation for the rape of four women. Already prosecuted since February 2018 for two rapes, the Islamologist was indicted on Thursday, February 13, for the rapes of two other women, identified thanks to photos found on his computer.

Heard as witnesses in February 2019, they said that they had been dragged, one in 2015, the other in March 2016, into brutal sexual intercourse by a man described as " manipulator " and exercising a " grip on them" »Via a« dominant-dominated »relationship. However, they had not instituted civil proceedings.

One of them finally filed a complaint recently against Tariq Ramadan , becoming the fifth woman in France to do so. Before the investigators last year, she had conceded " a consensual relationship ", while stressing: " It is of another order than physical rape, there is moral rape. "And to add:" It would be another offense for this kind of people. "

Me Emmanuel Marsigny, lawyer for Tariq Ramadan, denounces " a will to prosecute [his client] at all costs, and against the evidence ". " He has just been re-examined when the first woman targeted herself declared that the relations were agreed and that the other woman never complained about their two meetings, " he said. indicated to AFP.

The last interrogation of Tariq Ramadan dates back to October 2018. After months of denial, he then admitted to having sex with his first two accusers - those who had filed complaints in 2017 - but reports " agreed " according to him. The following month, he was released on bail, prohibited from leaving France.

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