This is a term at the heart of the dossier Tariq Ramadan, the Islamologist still subject to four complaints of rape in France and one in Switzerland: the grip. "The grip is made up of a set of mechanisms and processes which allow a psyche to exercise all power over another psyche, for its sole benefit and without taking into account the other's own desire", writes Daniel Zagury a renowned psychiatrist who has been asked by the examining magistrates to examine Tariq Ramadan's relations with several women. The expert was interested in those of the suspect with the complainants, but also other women, mere witnesses. In his conclusions, which Europe 1 was able to consult, he notes a clear hold on the four who accuse the Islamologist of rape, even if this hold does not explain everything.
"Massive idealization"
Daniel Zagury notes for example "the massive idealization" of Tariq Ramadan by the complainant who calls himself Chrystelle. "That Tariq Ramadan interests him is lived in a mixture of disbelief, intense satisfaction and narcissistic restoration. The facts are told as a traumatic event dominated by surprise, violence and the absence of consent for practices imposed without any consideration for his person. "
Above all, this grip continues even after the rape incidents denounced by Chrystelle. "The post-incident phase is marked by a picture of traumatic neuroses and a complex mixture of shame, guilt and regret at not having lived up to Mr. Ramadan's sexual expectations," wrote the psychiatrist. "The reconstructed exchanges suggest that she consented to a romantic and not unambiguous sexual encounter for moral and religious reasons."
Things are complex because the grip does not explain everything. "We find the dimension of control over [Christelle] but it would be wrong to consider that only the control led her to consent to a sexual relationship. What she did not consent to was the acts that she describes in a mixture of extreme violence and lack of any consideration for her own desire and dignity, "concludes the expert.
"A real addiction"
Equally complex is the case of Mounia Rabbouj, another complainant. Daniel Zagury writes that the relationship is "very quickly marked by the rawest erotic register" and that there is "clearly a real addiction, a subjugation, a submission to an all powerful guardian, isolation, a loss of critical sense , despite warnings. " But Mounia Rabbouj "fully consented to an erotic relationship after the first meeting," said the psychiatrist. And "if the grip exercised by Mr. Ramadan sheds light on part of the relationship, it does not seem possible to consider that it is the only spring".
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In the relationship between Tariq Ramadan and Henda Ayari, the grip was expressed after the fact. The young woman consented to a sexual relationship but "what she did not consent to is the acts which she describes as a mixture of extreme violence and lack of consideration for her own desire and dignity" , says Daniel Zagury.
The hold of the "amorous state"
As for another of the women interviewed by the investigators and who ended up constituting a civil party, the psychiatrist writes that she fully consented to the relationship, including to sadomasochistic acts, but "according to her account, been] a unilateral result of violence suffered in a climate of fear and disgust leaving no room for the possibility of expressing the slightest refusal ". There too, "if there has been a hold, it is that of the amorous state which quickly yielded to the observation of the gap between his expectations and those of Tariq Ramadan".
The grip was not dominant either in the case of another woman met by the psychiatrist who, while not excluding that she had watered down her account of the facts, explains that she suffered more of a "paternal type transfer". A final witness under X "is largely congruent with the examinations of the complainants and other witnesses with regard to the addictive approach and installation system as well as on preferred sexual practices" by Tariq Ramadan.
Last week the Islamologist changed his lawyer as revealed by Europe 1. As of his hearing last February, he denounced the lack of objectivity of Daniel Zagury, whom he wanted to challenge.