Tariq Ramadan tried for only one rape charge out of four against him ?

While Islamologist Tariq Ramadan is targeted; by four accusations of rape, the general prosecutor's office of the Paris Court of Appeal requires a trial for a single case and the abandonment of proceedings in the three other cases.

The abandonment of certain prosecutions has been made. requested by the general prosecutor of the Paris Court of Appeal. with regard to Tariq Ramadan. While the Swiss preacher is accused of rapes by four complainants, the prosecution requested of his indictment, delivered this Thursday March 7 and consulted by BFMTV, à only one case is the subject of a trial before the departmental criminal court. The charges relate to aggravated rape; what would have happened à Lyon in 2009. The three other cases concern alleged acts of rape “by violence, coercion, threat or surprise to the detriment of Henda El Ayari, Mounia Rabbouj and Nais Lorainqui" which would have taken place until 2016.

The indictment rendered, it is up to the Paris Court of Appeal that it will be up to judge on a single or all the cases for which Tariq Ramadan is suspected of rape cases must be tried before a criminal court. The hearing is scheduled for March 29.

A different indictment the advantage of Tariq Ramadan

This indictment which, if followed during the hearing, could put an end to the accusations against Tariq Ramadan in three different cases. re of that which had been pronounced by the Paris public prosecutor's office in July 2022. The magistrates then requested the referral of the intellectual to court for the four cases. These requisitions had been carried out approved by the investigating judges who issued their indictment order in July 2023.

For the Islamologist and his lawyer, the indictment of the attorney general is good news since it "confirms what Tariq Ramadan 's defense has maintained since the beginning of this procedure" indicated&eac; the preacher's advice on BFMTV. "I will now convince, with my colleagues , the investigating chamber seized of the OMA appeal to confirm the requisitions and to pronounce a total dismissal of the case by dismissing [the last ;egrave;re] accusation which I consider to be totally unfounded" added the lawyer.