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Islamologist Tariq Ramadan./ Photo flickr
Recent investigations into rape charges against Tariq Ramadan have once again undermined the version of the first complainant Henda Ayari, who was facing the Islamologist for the first time on Thursday
In October 2017, this former Salafist who became a secular activist lodged a complaint against the 55-year-old Muslim theologian, indicted for rape and incarcerated February 2nd. She claimed to have been raped in the early spring of 2012, in a hotel in eastern Paris.
She then changed her story, evoking the date of May 26, 2012 and a specific place: the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Paris. Place de la Republique.
But the investigation, led in particular by the criminal brigade, recently established that Mrs. Ayari was that day at a wedding in Rouen. "She looked for dates. She was wrong because she should have said finally: "I do not know," admitted Thursday the lawyer of the complainant, Mr. Francis Szpiner, adding that it does not question the accusations, that his client has maintained Facing the Theologian
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"It was difficult to see the person who raped me but I managed to answer all the questions of the judges and am relieved to have come to this confrontation Ayari said,
Tariq Ramadan's counsel, Emmanuel Marsigny, indicated that he was going to make a new request for his client's release, given the latest developments in the case.
There is no more for me Ayari file since we are unable to know when and where the alleged rape took place. Now there remains the issue of the release of Mr. Ramadan that I will testify today, "he said.
Two other women in France accused Tariq Ramadan of having raped them. For the first, nicknamed Christelle, the theologian is also indicted, for rape on vulnerable person. As for the second, Mounia Rabbouj, he is for the moment placed under the intermediate status of badisted witness. In custody, the Islamologist admitted to having met Henda Ayari and Christelle in public, only once, but denied any badual relations.
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