The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it had requested a trial before the assizes against Tariq Ramadan. The Swiss Islamologist is accused of rape by four women.
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“We are far from law and serene justice”, reacts Pascal-Pierre Garbarini, Tariq Ramadan’s lawyer, after the announcement, Tuesday, July 12, of the Paris prosecutor’s office of a request for his client to be referred to the assizes for the rape of four women. The 59-year-old Islamologist is accused of three rapes and one vulnerable person rape. “There is a dismissal for the fifth plaintiff”says the lawyer.
“The defense cannot get away from the idea that Tariq Ramadan’s profile, his personality, his political positioning have played a very important role in the stigmatization that has been made of his sexuality”says the lawyer.
“The political positions in relation to Tariq Ramadan’s Islam played in the decision to want to send him back at all costs before an assize court.”
Pascal-Pierre Garbarini, lawyer for Tariq Ramadanat franceinfo
“For them, an extraordinary sexuality is necessarily a sexuality that has to do with rapesays Maître Pascal-Pierre Garbarini. We are in situations that point the finger at the morality, not the definition of rape, omitting the lies made in the statements. I think that all of this will allow the investigating judge to make a decision that will make it possible to sort things out.”