Tariq Ramadan case: complainants under control, says psychiatrist

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After weeks of delay due to the Covid-19, the psychiatrist appointed in 2019 by the examining magistrates to analyze the judicial file of Tariq Ramadan has finally given his conclusions. The complainants of the Swiss Islamologist were partly under the influence.

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The conclusions of Dr. Daniel Zagury are clear: if the complainants agreed to have sex with Tariq Ramadan , it is partly because they were in his grip. This influence is characterized in particular by an idealization or subjugation of these women.

This eagerly awaited expertise falls when the debate around the very notion of grip was at the heart of the Islamologist's legal file, which is under investigation for the rapes of four women in France. Women who were sometimes put in difficulty by the revelation of exchanges with Tariq Ramadan considered ambivalent by the investigators.

Extremely violent acts

The psychiatrist also specifies that, even if the grip alone cannot be enough to explain sexual relations, the main complainants did not consent to the acts of extreme violence that he subjected them to.

For his part, the new lawyer for Tariq Ramadan denounces the psychiatrist's lack of objectivity, and the Swiss Islamologist is now pleading harsh but consenting relationships.

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

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