Jacques C., 72 years old, small gentleman, round and prominent belly under his short-sleeved shirt, white hair and beard. Married for twenty-five years, two children, former firefighter, truck driver, tour operator, pizzeria owner. His relatives say so ” gentle “, “affectionate”, “open to others”; He hid from his religious education the meaning of “giving of oneself”and now that he is retired, “try to do good around [lui] ». “I have a deep respect for women.says Jacques C.If my ex-wife were here, she would say: “He loves women, in all their diversity, in all their complexity.”
“How can we reconcile this statement with the facts for which you are brought before the court, namely the rape of an unconscious woman?”asked Stéphane Babonneau, Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer, on Thursday, September 19.
The Vaucluse criminal court has begun a new phase of the proceedings: the examination of the case of the forty-nine co-defendants of Dominique Pelicot, tried for having abused his wife, although he had previously drugged her. At a rate of five, six or seven defendants per week, the court will emerge from this tunnel at the beginning of November.
Dominique Pelicot and Jacques C. met on Coco.fr, a libertine dating site. “My wife takes a sleeping pill at night and when she sleeps, I bring the men.”Once the first wrote to the second. That same evening, Jacques C. went to Dominique Pelicot, in Mazan.
Some of his statements at the stand on Thursday: “I had the idea of a libertine couple whose wife would be asleep, maybe she was shy” ; “When he brings me into the room I feel like things are not the way I thought they were going to be” ; “I was a bit light, I didn’t ask any questions” ; “I was far from imagining that a man could do this kind of thing with the mother of his children” ; “I was naive and thought that at one point, Mme Pelicot would wake up” ; “Another important thing is age: I trust someone over 60” ; “I realized I was potentially abusing her, but it took me a while to relax.”
A pall of silence and unease falls over the courtroom.
Jacques C. is accused of having raped Gisèle Pelicot by digital penetration, as well as of having filmed fellatio forced on his sleeping wife by Dominique Pelicot, which would make him a co-author of this rape.
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