Dominique Pélicotthe septuagenarian who drugged his wife for a decade to offer her to dozens of rapists, has faced his last statement as a defendant on charges of aggravated rape, drug addiction and sexual abuse. apologizing to his family and, in turn, recognizing heartbreakingly acknowledging the facts: “To subdue a rebellious woman was my fantasy, out of pure selfishness.“He sentenced shortly after sitting before the president of the Criminal Court of Avignon (France), where eleven weeks of the trial are being held.
According to a journalist from France InfoThe man, who has been in custody for four years when he was arrested for filming several women under their skirts, which led to the discovery of hundreds of images of rapes of his unconscious wife, has been released. actively and passively denied having done the same with his daughter., Caroline Darianor with some of his grandchildren, as his eldest son declared this Monday and as Darian, who published a book talking about the hell lived in his family, has affirmed in several occasions.
Thus, the defendant, together with 50 other men, has also said that he does not remember taking pictures of Darian naked and in her underwear, images that were found on her hard drives. “I have seen her very sad and hurt. Caroline, I didn’t do anything to you,” he has sentenced addressing his daughter. “You’re lying! You’re not telling half the truth, not even about your ex-wife! You will die lying and alone!“, she shouted in the middle of the trial, where the president had to ask for calm after she also shouted that he was pitiful and that he had a lot of nerve.
The accused, moreover, has indicated that everything that has happened within the family is due to the fact that he was sexually abused when he was a minor. of age, something she already related in her first statements. “When I was made to witness a rape when I was fourteen years old it created a fissure in me that I have kept all my life,” she has pointed out. “I experienced things in my childhood. They are not excuses, they are facts. When I was raped when I was nine years old I was not aware of what it was. it happened to me in 1966, until 1971, when I met Gisèle, I had no girlfriend,” he added.
The 1999 rape
Pélicot, who has defined his ex-wife as strong in the face of some accusations that he does not live the trial with more drama, has also During his testimony, he denied that he drugged some of the men. who participated in the rapes. Of the 50 who are being prosecuted with him, only one of them has fully acknowledged the rape, the others deny it or claim to have been manipulated by the septuagenarian. “I am as responsible as they areif not more. Without me, they wouldn’t be, and without them, I wouldn’t be,” the man has stated about the co-defendants.
During his statement, he also read the report on a case of rape committed against a young woman in 1999who also accused him of trying to slit her throat. In the face of this, Pélicot has refused to answer questions claiming that they have nothing to do with the case currently being dealt with, although at the time he acknowledged the assault but not the attempted murder.
After this last statement and that of his ex-wife, who has decided to point directly to the defendants for not having denounced the facts, it is expected that this Wednesday will begin the arguments of the lawyers of the private prosecution and next week will be the Prosecutor’s Office which will request the penalties before the intervention of the lawyers of these. The verdict will be known on November 20.