Tariq Ramadan has been charged in Paris following allegations that he raped two women in France.
The charges came after two days of police questioning that saw the 55-year-old Oxford academic held in custody and being charged on Friday.
A disabled woman, named Christelle, came forward and told the police that Ramadan had sexually assaulted her in a French hotel room in 2009.
In her testimony, she described Ramadan's anatomy and told French police that he had a scar on his groin, according to police sources who spoke to the Times.
Ramadan told his questioners that he did meet Christelle for half an hour in a hotel lobby and confirmed that he did have a scar on his groin.
Another Muslim woman also came forward and told French police that Ramadan had allegedly raped her in a French hotel room in 2012 earlier this week.
Following these claims, French prosecutors informed Ramadan that he was being placed under criminal investigation on suspicion of sexual assault or rape.
He denied both assault claims and refused to sign the police transcript which allegedly documented his 2009 encounter with Christelle in a hotel room in Rouen.
Last year, Christelle told a French TV show that Ramadhan assaulted her for "several hours" and that she "feared" for her life during the encounter.
"He hit my crotch. He made me fall and picked me up by the hair… Then it was hell. Blows. Sexual violence… The more I screamed, the more he hit me," she told a French TV channel.
Following these allegations, Ramadan took a leave of absence from his post as professor of contemporary Islamic Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford.
On Thursday, a UK-based Islamic group also abandoned plans to host Ramadan at an event in Queen Mary University in London, after he was taken into custody over rape allegations.
Christelle told French police that she came forward after Henda Ayari, 40, reported him to the police for allegedly raping her in a Paris hotel room in 2012.
Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, has denied the accusations, describing them as “a campaign of lies launched by my adversaries".
Responding to further allegations in Swiss media of sexual misconduct against teenage girls in the 1980s and 1990s, Ramadan said: “Anonymous allegations have been made against me in Geneva accusing me of the abuse of students who were minors nearly 25 years ago. I categorically deny all these allegations.”
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