(Swiss Info) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will have to stand trial in the Swiss city of Geneva next year accused of rape and sexual coercion.
Justice officials and lawyers of the parties confirmed that the 60-year-old will be tried following four years of investigations.
The complainant, known as “Brigitte” by the media, accuses the scholar of having dragged her into a hotel room on the evening of October 28, 2008.
Converted to Islam, she had met Ramadan a few months earlier during a book signing, then during a conference.
