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On Friday, a Paris court fined university professor Tariq Ramadan for revealing the name of one of the women he accused of raping them, in violation of a French law that protects alleged victims from “retaliation and harassment.”
Tariq Ramadan denies all five rape charges.
And the court imposed on Ramadan the payment of a fine of 3,000 euros with suspension of payment of two thousand dollars for revealing the full name of the alleged victim in the 2019 book and also during a television interview.
The woman, known only as “Christelle” in the French press, accused Ramadan of raping her in a hotel room in Lyon in 2009.
Christelle’s indictment came shortly after feminist activist Hind Al-Ayari also accused him of rape, before two women brought similar accusations.
Ramadan was a professor at Oxford University until he was forced to take a vacation after allegations emerged at the height of the Me Too movement in 2017.
Last month, prosecutors charged him with a fifth count of rape related to the alleged sexual assault of Monia Rabouj, who was working as an escort.
And his testimony forced Ramadan to admit for the first time that he had had extramarital affairs, stressing that they were “consensual.”
On Friday, the court ordered Ramadan and the publisher of his book to pay Kristel 5,000 euros in compensation for the damages she suffered.
She said in court that after she continued to publish the book, revealing her name became the “cornerstone” of a campaign of harassment against her by supporters of Ramadan.
Ramadan’s lawyers announced that they would appeal this decision.
