Dramatic flip of occasions: Tariq Ramadan discovered responsible of rape on enchantment | EUROtoday

LThe authorized troubles usually are not over for Tariq Ramadan in Switzerland. In a judgment dated August 28, 2024, made public on Tuesday, September 10, the Criminal Appeal and Review Chamber of the Court of Justice overturned the judgment of the Criminal Court of May 24, 2023, discovering him responsible of rape and sexual coercion for nearly the entire information reported.

These dated again to the evening of October 28-29, 2008. The complainant claimed to have suffered hours of violence and sexual coercion in a lodge room, after having willingly adopted Tariq Ramadan, whom she vastly admired, there.

In the primary occasion, the latter had raised many obvious contradictions within the angle of the complainant, denouncing a late grievance, ten years after the information, instrumentalized, based on him, by ideological adversaries. He had cited his spouse in his protection, in addition to the comic Dieudonné.

A really combative defendant, a hesitant complainant

He appeared very combative and eloquent when confronted with a complainant who appeared beneath the pseudonym of “Brigitte” and who had requested to be seated behind a display through the hearings, to mitigate the confrontation with Tariq Ramadan.

The prosecutor had requested a three-year jail sentence, however the court docket didn’t comply with him, announcing the acquittal requested by the protection. The felony enchantment and assessment chamber, for its half, held that “several testimonies, certificates, medical notes and opinions of private experts are consistent with the facts reported by the complainant. The evidence gathered by the investigation thus convinced the chamber of the defendant's guilt.”

As a outcome, she sentenced Tariq Ramadan to a “three-year custodial sentence, without a one-year suspended sentence”. The judgment could also be appealed, inside 30 days, to the Federal Court. Contacted, M^e François Zimmeray, “Brigitte's” lawyer at first occasion, welcomed this enchantment resolution. Tariq Ramadan's protection was not instantly accessible to touch upon this judgment.