Were the women who accuse Tariq Ramadan of rape in part in his grip?

This question at the heart of the case will have to be examined again, after the cancellation of the expertise of Dr. Daniel Zagury by the Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday.

This psychiatric expertise dating from May 2020 was invalidated by the investigating chamber for a procedural defect.

The famous psychiatrist has indeed questioned several complainants or witnesses without the agreement of the investigating judges, while he had only been authorized to consult the file, in which the statements of the women concerned appeared.

"The expert committed an abuse of power"

The court judges, however, that "the analysis of the relations that may have existed between the eight plaintiffs and witnesses identified (...) and Tariq Ramadan constitutes a central element of the procedure which must imperatively be the subject of an in-depth study", which could be entrusted to "a college of experts", according to the judgment.

"The expert committed an abuse of power which was sanctioned, it is the fair application of the law", welcomed Philippe Ohayon, one of the advice of Tariq Ramadan, indicted for suspicion of rape in five women, which the Swiss intellectual firmly contests, pleading for consensual relationships.

A grip that would justify exchanges deemed "ambivalent"

"This decision confirms that there is no more Ramadan file", assure two other defense lawyers, Nabila Asmane and Ouadie Elhamamouchi, considering "the notion of hold" as "a lifeline to save this instruction of judicial shipwreck ”.

Conversely, for Eric Morain, lawyer for two plaintiffs, "the court ordered a second opinion, proof, if any, that the issue of influence is more than ever at the heart of this case".

The debate on the notion of control has emerged in this case after the complainants were sometimes put in difficulty by the revelation of their exchanges with Tariq Ramadan, considered "ambivalent" by the investigators since a first complaint in October 2017.

A grip in four steps

In his report, Dr. Zagury described in four stages the relationship established by Tariq Ramadan: a "veneration" for "the brilliant intellectual" encountered on social networks, then exchanges "more and more eroticized with a sadomasochistic coloring. domination / submission ”, followed by an encounter“ described as a sudden and brutal sequence ”towards extreme sexual practices, before a fourth phase of contradictory feelings (resentment, guilt, revenge, admiration and persistent subjection).

This judicial debate on the notion of influence is essential for the investigating judges who must determine, before ordering a possible trial or the abandonment of the proceedings, whether or not the Islamologist can be accused of having imposed acts. of sexual penetration by a form of "moral constraint".

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