Islamologist Tariq Ramadan sentenced to 18 years in jail for raping three ladies | EUROtoday

Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan was sentenced on Wednesday March 25 to 18 years of legal imprisonment by the Paris legal court docket, which tried him in absentia and behind closed doorways for rapes dedicated in opposition to three ladies.

He was discovered responsible of rape and rape of a susceptible particular person.

“Consenting to sexuality is not consenting to any sexual act whatsoever,” underlined the president of the court docket, Corinne Goetzmann.

She ordered that he be topic to a judicial follow-up measure for eight years, prohibiting him specifically from coming into into contact with the victims, but in addition from broadcasting any work, audiovisual work or public intervention which might relate to this offense.

She additionally sentenced him to a everlasting ban from French territory as soon as his sentence had been served and maintained the results of the arrest warrant issued in opposition to him on March 6.

Arrest warrant with “immediate execution”

The Islamologist, already convicted by Swiss justice for the rape of a girl, was on trial in Paris since March 2 for rapes allegedly dedicated on three different ladies between 2009 and 2016, which he contests: an aggravated rape, with violence and in opposition to a susceptible particular person, dedicated on “Christelle” (assumed first identify) in Lyon in October 2009; a rape which allegedly came about in 2012 in Paris on Henda Ayari, a former Salafist turned secular activist who had triggered the affair by submitting a grievance in October 2017; and one other on a 3rd lady, relationship again to 2016.

But when the trial opened, he didn’t seem on the listening to. His attorneys then defined that he had been hospitalized two days earlier in Geneva, due, based on them, to a “flare-up” of a number of sclerosis.

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An ordered medical experience concluded that the Islamologist had been affected by “stability of multiple sclerosis” for a number of years, “with no sign of a recent outbreak”, and estimated that he may subsequently seem earlier than the legal court docket.

The president then rejected the request to postpone the trial and determined that the 63-year-old accused can be tried in absentia, and behind closed doorways as requested by a civil celebration. She additionally indicated that an arrest warrant, “for immediate execution and dissemination”, was issued in opposition to him.

With AFP