The Paris Court of Appeal examines on Friday the appeal of Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan against his referral to the departmental criminal court for having raped four women. The general prosecutor's office has requested the dropping of charges for three of them and discarded any notion of influence.
The notion of control should be at the heart of this hearing which will be held behind closed doors this Friday afternoon for facts dating from 2012 to 2016. In Switzerland, the preacher obtained an acquittal in May 2023 in a case of sexual coercion and coercion dating back to 2008.