A nickname used to refer to Tariq Ramadan
Two mundane photos of a wedding in spring, in the region of RouenThis on images, alongside a couple of young married couple, a brunette woman, about thirty. The scene, immortalized in the evening of the twenty-six may, now offers an embarrassing issue to the judges in charge of the case Ramadan: these shots, recover-they cause a part of the record instructs against the islamologist switzerland indicted for rape since the two February. This new bounce -"crazy", according to the words Emmanuel Marsigny, the lawyer of Tariq Ramadan - was at the heart of the first confrontation Thursday with nineteen July, between the preacher muslim and Henda Ayari, who is accused of rape. Because the twenty-six may had been advanced as a date privileged of the facts mentioned by the complainant during his hearing by the judges, there was a month and a half. The former salafist, aged uarante and a years, was the first to lodge a complaint against him, the twenty first of October. Since then, two other women have seized the French justice system to expose similar facts. Indicted for"rape"and"rape on a vulnerable person", Tariq Ramadan has acknowledged extramarital relationships, but all consensual. It ensures from the beginning not to have had any sexual intercourse with Henda Ayari.
Among the complainants, who describes himself as an activist, secular, and feminist is the only one who agrees to appear on the boards tv, without asking for anonymity.
The single, also, to have published books in which she tells the story of his life.
In one of the chapters I have chosen to be free (Flammarion, November), she spoke of a certain"Zoubeyr". To understand the excitement generated by the photos recently uncovered, a flashback is needed. Since its complaint filed nine months ago in Rouen, the story of Henda Ayari has known constants, but also some variations. The rank of about the same, the fact that she began exchanging messages with the theologian after changed his profile photo Facebook, in the spring of. Unchanged also, the brutality, according to her, the sexual relationship imposed by Tariq Ramadan in a hotel room. But what is the date and place of the facts, she is struggling since the beginning to be precise. In his letter to the prosecutor, the twenty first of October, she wrote that she was raped,"at the Holiday Inn, in march, in Paris."No certainty however."It is very difficult to remember, but the front of the Holiday Inn gare de l'est reminds me vaguely of something", she explains to the police of Rouen, the twenty-four October, which show different facades of the hotels of this chain in Paris. It is then the rape on the thirty first of march or the six April. Heard by the judges, the twenty-four may, the forty-something woman said to be"disturbed enough by this story to date". Looking into his affairs, it was, she says, found a calendar for, and handwritten notes, with a scheduled appointment, on the twenty-sixth of may, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, place de la République, in Paris. At the time, she had noted the schedule of a train from Rouen to twenty: and arriving in the railway station of Saint-Lazare at twenty-one: pm."To be honest, I did not remember absolutely not as it was at the Crowne Plaza, recognizes it however. For judges, it provides stubs According to her, they would have used to pay train tickets to travel from Rouen to Paris, that day. Henda Ayari even adds some details that were not applying to the judges."It was raining and I was soaked, my blow-dry falls in the water", she explains, as well, confirming a detail already mentioned in his book. Tariq Ramadan, for him, provides not have met that"one time only", while denying the slightest sexual intercourse. He also has trouble remembering the date of their meeting, but it is categorical in front of the judges: it was not the twenty-six may. In this battle of credibility, word against word, where every detail counts, the evolution of the version of the complainant are as many gaps in which rushes the defense."Change of hotel, change of date, soon it will change also the author of the facts", says Me Emmanuel Marsigny, his lawyer, in early June, after the new version of Henda Ayari. On the plateau of France Inter, it drives the point home:"We have communicated to the justice readings for Météo France. There is not a drop of rain in Paris, regardless of the borough, on the twenty-sixth of may."On the third of July, the hearing of the eldest son of Henda Ayari by the officers of the brigade of the Paris crime comes to bring a new element.
The agenda as cheques were paid into the folder
In conflict with her mother, describing her as a"mythomaniac", the young man ensured that she was present at the marriage of his half-brother, the twenty-six-may, in the suburbs of Rouen. Six days later, the neu fjuillet, police officers from the major crime unit in Paris to hear the half-brother, which confirms that Henda Ayari was present at her wedding on this day, twenty hours to three hours in the morning approximately. It sends two photos to the investigators, where he poses with his wife, and his half-sister. On the sixteenth day of July, the city of Rouen confirms the date of the marriage. Exit therefore, the track of the twenty-six may."For me, the about, there is most of record,"has responded Me Marsigny, Thursday, after two hours spent in front of the judges, with his or her client and the opposing party. The lawyer of Henda Ayari, Me Francis Szpiner, who also defends the third complainant, recalled that,"since the beginning of the case, his client is unable to remember the date of the rape."He refers to the"syndrome of the good student who wants to help the justice, wants to do well and reconstitutes when he does not know". The investigation of the police, he says, has also revealed that Mr.
Ramadan had booked a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, for the twenty-six may, before you cancel the reservation three weeks in advance.
This could explain the notes of Ms.
Ayari in its agenda and consolidate its version according to which the theologian had even initially set this appointment.
The flaws in the story of Henda Ayari could be detrimental to other women who accuse Tariq Ramadan."There is not a single folder, there are three of them, because there are three complainants, stresses Me Eric Morain, the lawyer, Christelle (assumed name). Each has its history, its temperament, its lawyers and different strategies. These folders are moving each at their own pace, and none of it gives the tempo to the other."His client, who filed a complaint on the twenty-sixth of October, has varied neither on the date nor the place of the rape which she accused Tariq Ramadan, the neu foctobre in a hotel in Lyon.
Already faced with the islamologist the beginning of February, it would have had to be heard again, Wednesday, eighteen July, in his presence.
She eventually declined a few days before, for health reasons. After the confrontation Thursday, Me Emmanuel Marsigny has filed a new application for the release of his client, in prison since the beginning of February."I would not understand that he can still be held in detention in the light of these developments", he says.
