Justice opens the way for a trial of Tariq Ramadan for rape of three women, after the rejection of his appeals to the Court of Cassation

Towards a rape trial for Tariq Ramadan. The appeal filed by the Swiss Islamologist was rejected on Wednesday October 9, franceinfo learned from a judicial source, confirming information from AFP. As a reminder, on June 27, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered a trial against Tariq Ramadan, for aggravated rape of a woman and two rapes of two others.

The Islamologist contests these accusations and therefore filed an appeal. At the end of a hearing on Wednesday morning, the highest French judicial court rejected it, which makes Tariq Ramadan’s referral to justice for the three rapes definitive and, therefore, opens the way to a trial. before the Paris criminal court. In detail, the appeal was the subject of a decision of non-admission, a procedure which allows non-serious or inadmissible appeals to be quickly dismissed.

In Switzerland, the preacher was sentenced at the end of August to three years in prison, including one year, for rape and sexual coercion in 2008. His lawyers appealed to the Swiss Federal Court, the supreme court of the Confederation.