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Expert describes Tariq Ramadan’s “grip” on key accusers

After two and a half years of investigations, the debate on the notion of grip has become essential at the heart of this dossier.

Un psychiatric expert seized by the courts considers that the main accusers of Tariq Ramadan have, in part under control, agreed to have intimate relations with the Islamologist but that they have not consented to sexual acts of “extreme violence “that he subjected them to, in his conclusions consulted Tuesday by AFP.

The Parisian examining magistrates, who have put the Swiss Islamologist on trial for the rapes of four women, had asked a renowned legal expert, Dr. Daniel Zagury, to determine whether the ties established by Tariq Ramadan with them were “d ‘a grip relationship’.

After two and a half years of investigations, the debate on this notion has become essential at the heart of this case in which the accusers have sometimes been put in difficulty by the revelation of exchanges with Mr. Ramadan deemed “ambivalent” by the investigators . In his conclusions, the expert considers that this dimension of control, hotly contested by the defense, is found in the relationships formed with the two main complainants, Henda Ayari and a woman nicknamed Christelle, who claim to have been raped respectively in 2012 and in 2009.

This dimension “essentially sheds light on the posterior side of the facts, reflecting the ambivalence of feelings and reactions and the persistence of the bond over time”. Regarding Ms. Ayari, “for the previous phase, we must also consider the intensity of the romantic feelings that led her to consent to a sexual relationship,” he continues. The expert also considers that “it would be wrong to consider that only the right-of-way led [Christelle] to consent to a sexual encounter ”.

“A masterful demonstration”

But for the two women, he concludes, identically: “What she did not consent to is the acts she describes as a mixture of extreme violence and lack of consideration for her own desire and dignity. “

For one of Ms. Ayari’s lawyers, Me Jonas Haddad, “this expertise characterizes the grip established by Mr. Ramadan” and therefore establishes “duress” which constitutes the criminal definition of rape. “She intervenes in a harmful climate since my client was again attacked last week by a supporter of Ramadan,” he added.

“This is a masterful, scientific and relentless demonstration which corroborates what the file has been saying for two and a half years now and which explains the charges brought by the complainants”, reacted for his part Me Eric Morain, Christelle’s lawyer . Ramadan’s lawyers were not immediately available to respond.

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