The defense of Tariq Ramadan, who has been appearing since Monday in Geneva for rape, summoned the controversial comedian Dieudonné to come and testify on Tuesday.
A sulphurous character character witness of another sulphurous character. Sensation of this trial in Geneva when one of Tariq Ramadan’s lawyers announces, Monday, May 15, the arrival of Dieudonné for the day after and the second day of the trial of the Swiss preacher who is accused of rape in a hotel room there almost 15 years old.
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The complainant, present in the room during all the proceedings on Monday, must speak on Tuesday for the first time before the criminal court. The complainant, whose alias is “Brigitte”, of Swiss nationality, was in her forties at the material time.
An anonymous letter
She assures that the Islamologist subjected her to brutal sexual acts accompanied by beatings and insults, on the evening of October 28, 2008, in a hotel room in Geneva. She filed a complaint in 2018.
If the defense wished to have Dieudonné, a relative of the complainant who was an agent of artists, testify, it is because the name of the disparaged comedian appears in an anonymous letter received by the court. He would have indeed collected the confidences of “Brigitte” concerning a relationship agreed with Tariq Ramadan. According to this letter, she boasted in the presence of Dieudonné “one night stand with Tariq Ramadan”. A document supposed to sweep away any rape.
“Absolutely pathetic process”
Ridiculous for François Zimeray, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers, who asked to be separated from Tariq Ramadan by a screen so as not to have to see him during a trial: “I find that bringing Dieudonné as a witness based on an anonymous letter which came a fortnight before this hearing, in a file which has existed for five years, which is neither dated nor signed, of which we do not know who wrote it. wrote, is an utterly pathetic process that says a lot about the fact that Mr. Ramadan is running out of arguments.”
Tariq Ramadan explains for his part that he met Dieudonné, three times in all, the last in 2010. “Is he friend or foe?”asks the president of the court. “I don’t know”replies the 60-year-old Islamologist today, while Dieudonné’s lawyer warns that “Testifying is not adhering to a political or religious thesis”. Or when sulphurous sometimes rhymes with cautious.