No, Tariq Ramadan was not giving a lecture in the United States on May 23, 2014

Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan said on RMC / BFM TV not to know the woman who accuses him of rape in a meeting in Lyon on May 23, 2014, assuring to have given at that date a conference in the United States. This conference started the next day.

The 57-year-old Muslim intellectual, already indicted in France for two rapes he is challenging and under investigation for the charges of a third woman, is targeted this summer by a fourth complaint, this time for "meeting rape".

In this complaint, filed on July 12, a woman accuses Tariq Ramadan and one of her friends of having raped her on May 23, 2014 in a hotel in Lyon where she was to interview him.

"On May 23, 2014, I'm giving a lecture in Baltimore in front of 10,000 people", assured Friday, September 6, 2019 Mr. Ramadan on RMC / BFMTV."Except to have the gift of ubiquity (…), I was not there", added Mr. Ramadan.

His schedule of the time

Tariq Ramadan gave several lectures in Baltimore (a city near the capital Washington DC), but between May 24 and May 26, dates for the 39th annual convention of ICNA-MAS, an Islamic organization present in North America.

According to the program found by AFP, Mr. Ramadan intervened for the first time Saturday, May 24 in a session starting from 14:00 local time, 8:00 pm French time.

An excerpt from the conference program featuring Tariq Ramadan in Baltimore

According to the tweets found by AFP, Mr. Ramadan spoke around 15:15 local time (21:15 French time), in front of a few hundred people.

Full room for @TariqRamadan Has # ICNA2014 pic.twitter.com/PkeiU2Ac24

– NOOR (@NTagouri) May 24, 2014

Here is the video.

Ramadan then gave at least one more conference, probably Sunday, May 26 before a wider panel that could correspond to the "10,000 people" mentioned.

After the interview on RMC / BFMTV, the entourage of the Islamologist has told AFP that he actually left London on May 23, 2014 at 16:35 (local time) to arrive at 19H55 in Baltimore .

In conclusion, the conference mentioned by Mr. Ramadan to justify that he was not in Lyon on May 23, 2014, the day he is accused of committing rape in a meeting, actually took place in the following days .