Tariq Ramadan set to face new trial, this time in Switzerland

(Al-Arabiya) A court in Geneva hearing the Tariq Ramadan case has explained that the “threshold necessary to justify opening a criminal investigation is present and this has been the case since the beginning of the procedure,” a report in the Le Point has said.

The investigators, following a complaint filed on April 13 by a Swiss woman, gathered evidence for the prosecutor’s office to place Tariq Ramadan under custody.

After two rape complaints filed in France — and the one charge of sexual assault in the United States — a Swiss woman aged 44 years at the time of the incident accused that Ramadan raped her in a Geneva hotel in 2008.

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