“French Court Delivers 18-Year Jail Term For Islamic ‘Scholar’ Tariq Ramadan For Raping Three Women”, The Commune, March 28, 2026
“A Paris criminal court has sentenced Swiss-Egyptian Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to 18 years in prison for the rape of three women in France between 2009 and 2016, in one of the most high-profile #MeToo trials in French legal history, as reported in Le Monde.
The verdict was delivered in absentia – Ramadan did not appear before the court, citing a multiple sclerosis flare-up. The court rejected this claim.
The Charges and Sentence
Judge Corinne Goetzmann cited the “extreme seriousness of the acts” in handing down the sentence, which represents the maximum-level punishment available. In addition to the custodial term, the court imposed…..”
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