(National-UAE) Efforts to bring Tariq Ramadan to justice over alleged rapes of women have taken another sinister twist after it emerged that his supporters engaged a rogue French intelligence expert to expose the identity of an accuser.
Lawyers for the woman known as Christelle have said the former agent of the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) trawled the dark web for information on her in 2018.
The news emerged as Mr Ramadan, a grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, faces a French court hearing on June 23 for violations of the country’s anonymity laws governing victims of alleged assaults.
In his book Duty of Truth, Mr Ramadan named his accuser — Christelle is a pseudonym — 84 times.
