Moroccan Plaintiff Considers Dropping Rape Charges Against Tariq Ramadan, Seeks Apology

In an interview with GQ magazine, Mounia Rabbouj, 46, often called "Marie" by the press, said: "I did not file a complaint for rape in the first place, and he turned it into rapes. I wanted to denounce the facts, he wanted to destroy a man. That was not my approach. I told Maître Szpiner that I wanted to denounce the violence that Tariq Ramadan subjected me to, but little by little, after hours in his office, it became a complaint for rape. From my first hearing with the judge, I felt uncomfortable, those were not my words." It was therefore her former lawyer, Maître Francis Szpiner, who would have "instrumentalized" her to harm Ramadan.

A version denied by this lawyer: "Mounia Rabbouj was talking about violence and I was explaining to her that it was rape. That’s why she signed the complaint. We offered her the book by psychiatrist Roland Coutanceau on influence, so that she would realize it."

The latter even goes further by stating that she can be satisfied with an apology: "I would like to be confronted with Tariq Ramadan. If he apologized, I could withdraw my complaint. I want him to admit that he humiliated me, that it was his games, not mine."

She is the third plaintiff in this case, after Henda Ayari and "Christelle", and it is she who provided material evidence (a dress stained with Ramadan’s semen) that forced the Oxford professor to admit to having had extramarital affairs. A dress that also has its own story: "As soon as I entered the room, he threw me on the bed and we had sex. I was wearing my dress. After penetrating me, he ejaculated on it."

Rabbouj would also have kept hundreds of correspondences as well as pornographic photos and videos proving an ongoing relationship with the Islamic scholar. GQ writes: "After seducing her in February 2013, the Oxford professor would have kept her under his influence for a year