He will have to answer heavy charges.

The Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, 60, is referred to "the Criminal Court" of Geneva for "rape" and "sexual coercion", as announced by the prosecutor's office on Monday.

In this case, the plaintiff, nicknamed "Brigitte" in the Swiss media, accuses the famous preacher of having dragged her into a hotel room in Geneva on the evening of October 28, 2008, where he allegedly subjected her to sexual acts. brutal, accompanied by beatings and insults.

Converted to Islam, she had met him a few months earlier during a book signing and a conference in September 2008. An increasingly intimate correspondence had then been established between them on the social networks Facebook and MSN.

On the evening of the events, she had an appointment with the famous preacher for tea.

Incarcerated for ten months in France in 2018 for a rape case

The investigation progressed slowly because the Islamologist, then in pre-trial detention in Paris for other rape charges, could not be heard.

Placed under judicial supervision upon his release in November 2018, he was prohibited from leaving French territory.

The prosecutor therefore had to wait for the green light from the French judicial authorities to hear him in Paris.

Tariq Ramadan, who filed a complaint for "slanderous denunciation" against "Brigitte", admitted having met the woman but claims to have given up on the sexual relationship, according to his lawyers.


In France, the Paris prosecutor's office requested in July that the Islamologist be tried at the assizes for the rapes of four women, which were allegedly committed between 2009 and 2016. But in August, his lawyers asked for the suspension of the instruction, as long as the Court of Appeal has not ruled on the expert opinions concluding that Mr. Ramadan's "hold" on the four plaintiffs.

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Tariq Ramadan case: Threatened with a trial at the assizes for rape, he asks for the suspension of the instruction

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Tariq Ramadan case: The Paris prosecutor's office requests the assizes for the rapes of four women

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