Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan will soon be tried in Geneva, where a woman accuses him of having raped her in 2008, we learned from concordant sources on Friday, confirming information from the public channel RTS.
"The prosecution considers that the instruction is complete"
and
"the parties are informed that an indictment will be drafted shortly"
, indicated in a notice of closure of information signed on May 18 the prosecutor Adrian Holloway, according to a source close to AFP.
If the parties still have until June 10 to possibly request other investigations, such as the hearing of new witnesses, they can no longer appeal before the trial.
The plaintiff, nicknamed "Brigitte" in the Swiss media, accuses the Islamologist of having dragged her into a hotel room in Geneva on the evening of October 28, 2008, where he allegedly subjected her to brutal sexual acts, accompanied by beatings and insults.
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had access to the psychiatric report
Converted to Islam, she had met him a few months earlier at a book signing, then at a conference in September.
An increasingly intimate correspondence followed on MSN and Facebook.
On the evening of the events, she had an appointment with the famous preacher for tea.
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Tariq Ramadan, 59 today, who filed a complaint for
"slanderous denunciation"
against "Brigitte", admitted having met her but claims to have given up on the sexual relationship.
“Unlike France, the decision to indict is based in law on mere suspicion.
The slightest doubt about a person's innocence can justify their referral to a trial court.
This is what happened here, in a post #MeToo context, when the complainant's statements are full of established lies and blatant inconsistencies”
, reacted to AFP Me Guerric Canonica one of his Swiss lawyers and Me Philippe Ohayon, one of the French lawyers also appointed in the Swiss case.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Me François Zimeray, explains that she "
is relieved to see that her efforts have not been in vain, she has the feeling of having had to face the hatred and threats of a multitude to finally be heard".
Tariq Ramadan and the complainant were confronted several times in France, but also in Switzerland in November 2020.