Bana's grandson tried by French courts for rape
A French court has ruled to fine grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder, Hassan al-Bana, for revealing the name of one of the women who accused him of rape previously. This is the first ruling to indict Tareq Ramadan.
Lawbreaking
The court ruled to fine
Ramadan $3,000 for revealing the name of the victim in a book he released in
2019 and during a television interview.
The ruling was based on
a French law that protects presumed victims against revenge or harassment.
The same court fined
Ramadan and the publisher of his book an additional 5,000 Euros in compensation
for the damage happening to the woman.
Cornerstone
The woman said she had
failed in suspending the publication of the book. Nonetheless, the revelation
made in the book turned into a cornerstone of a major campaign against her by
Ramadan's supporters, she said.
The
woman accused Ramadan of raping her in a hotel room in the southwestern French
city of Léon in 2009.
Her
accusation came a short time after another woman accused Ramadan of raping her.
Two women leveled the same charge against the grandson of al-Bana later.
Grandson
Ramadan is the grandson
of al-Bana. He was a professor at Oxford University. However, the university
administration forced him to take leave after the emergence of the
aforementioned rape accusations in 2017.
Last month, public
prosecutors accused Ramadan of rape for the fifth time.
Ramadan denies,
however, all these charges. He came later to concede that he used to have
sexual relations outside the framework of marriage.
He conceded that he had
sex with two women in France who had accused him of raping them earlier.
Nevertheless, he said relations with these women were made upon their consent.
