Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Faces Accuser in Swiss Rape Case

The man has already been indicted four times for rape. The first confrontation with the woman the media have nicknamed "Brigitte" took place on September 16. Nearly a month after this confrontation, Tariq Ramadan wrote on his Twitter account that the plaintiff was confronted with her fanciful statements and that he had filed a complaint for "slanderous denunciation." The lawyers of both parties are eagerly awaiting this second confrontation. Me Robert Assael, one of the Swiss lawyers for the plaintiff, said that "Brigitte is serene and confident because she is telling the truth," reports 7sur7.

For his part, the Islamic scholar, according to his lawyer Me Pascal Garbarini, is "serene and combative, he will be precise and completely consistent, unlike the opposing party," he said. "Brigitte" accuses the Islamic scholar of having taken her to a hotel room in Geneva on the evening of October 28, 2008, where he would have subjected her to brutal sexual acts, accompanied by blows and insults.

At the end of the hearing in September, the lawyer for the Islamic scholar in Switzerland had noted the "posture of a seductive woman" of the plaintiff in the messages exchanged with the preacher after the meeting in a hotel. "One cannot claim for a single moment to have been assaulted by this man and barely an hour later write to him ’I dream of kissing you’ and then at 8:51 am ’you are a wonderful man’."