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French Justice Issues Arrest Warrant Against Tariq Ramadan, Absent From Trial for Rape

Tariq Ramadan faces charges for alleged rapes from 2009 to 2016 with trial possibly postponed due to his hospitalization, while he denies all accusations.

The trial of Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of raping three women in France between 2009 and 2016 opened on Monday before the Paris Criminal Court – but in his absence, as the 63-year-old remains hospitalised in Switzerland.

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Ramadan did not appear on the first court date, now there is an arrest warrant against the controversial Islamic scientist. The trial starts first without him, three women make serious accusations.

·Germany
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The Paris Criminal Court today decided to prosecute in absentia the Swiss academic specializing in Islamic studies Tariq Ramadan, accused of sexual violence in France and already definitively sentenced in Switzerland for the same crime. The judges also issued an international arrest warrant against the teacher, after having established that his health conditions would allow him to appear in court. Ramadan was professor of contemporary Islamic st…

·Rome, Italy
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On Friday, the departmental criminal court of Paris issued an arrest warrant against Tariq Ramadan and decided to try by default the Islamologist, absent since the opening of his trial on Monday...

·France
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The Paris departmental criminal court, which is to judge Islamologist Tariq Ramadan for rapes on three women, ordered on Monday a medical expert, the accused did not appear at the opening of his trial on the grounds of hospitalization in Geneva according to his lawyers. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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PODCAST. The trial of Tariq Ramadan opened this Monday, March 2nd in his absence before the departmental criminal court in Paris. He has been charged since 2018 with rapes on three women. Several women accuse the Islamologist of having raped them, most of the time in the past.

·Paris, France
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Mediapart broke the news in Paris, France on Sunday, March 1, 2026.
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