After months of denial and evasion, the grandson of the founder of the terrorist organization, Tariq Ramadan, confessed Monday to having sexual relations with two women accused of raping them.
Ramadan's lawyer Emmanuel Marcini said after a two-hour session in a Paris court that the text messages exchanged between Ramadan and the two women "prove that the civil parties have lied and that the sexual relations were carried out willingly and in good faith," AFP reported.
The lawyer said he had made a fourth request for the release of his imprisoned client in France since he was accused on February 2 of raping two women.
"A complaint will be filed later on charges of hand reporting," he added.
"The reason that has forced Ramadan so far not to recognize these relations is that he had a feeling from the start that there is a conviction that he is guilty."
"For 11 months now, Ramadan has been lying," said lawyer Eric Moran, who is on behalf of Kristall, a pseudonym for one of the two women. "He presents himself today as a hero of truth and says my tongue is not serious, not a model of virtue."
Ramadan, 56, was forced to confess after the revelations at the end of September to hundreds of phone messages from an old telephone to Crystal.
Ramadan is accused of raping her during their only meeting on 9 October 2009 in Lyon, France, and filed a complaint with the judiciary in October 2017.
A third woman joined the Ramadan list last March, saying she was raped from Ramadan in France, London and Brussels 9 times between 2013 and 2014.
A fourth woman filed a complaint against Ramadan, accusing him of raping her in Geneva.
