Temesta doses were prepared in advance: three 2.5 milligram tablets crushed and stored in “a small pipette”. Dominique Pelicot only had to apply the powder “in a coffee shop in the morning”, “puréed” EITHER “in a mirror” which he took to his wife, after dinner, in front of the television. “So you had to wait at least two hours. »
Dominique Pelicot revealed, on Friday, October 18, certain details of the process of chemical submission inflicted on his wife for years, and found himself once again at the center of the process. The president of the Vaucluse criminal court, Roger Arata, wanted to pause the marathon of interrogations that the jurisdiction has been carrying out for five weeks, so that Dominique Pelicot could answer a certain number of questions accumulated over the days.
In particular, I wanted to understand how the accused, 71 years old, had managed to make his wife take the drug for so long (there are at least 200 rapes in ten years) without arousing suspicion, in a house that was not “It is not a castle with fifty rooms” : “I was the one who cooked, she was often in the next room. He was hesitant at times but, for the most part, it was relatively easy. »
he was also “very easy, as long as I was in a state of deep sleep”to prepare the body of Gisèle Pelicot, in “a mixture of desire and restlessness”take off his pajamas and dress him “according to each one’s desire”. The effect of the medication lasted “five o’clock”then once the guest leaves, “There was a lot of time to put things back in their place”. “Wipes, simple toiletries” on his wife before dressing her, washing clothes – “Eco-friendly program, Liquid Soupline, thirty minutes” – for suits “kept in the garage, in a bag”.
“The consequences were painful”
“How did you manage to face the next day, to live normally with this woman whom you say you love more than anything, and whom you had prepared and offered? »The president wanted to know again. Dominique Pelicot did not give further details: “The next few days were painful, I didn’t see her in good condition. »
The essential question of this second interrogation concerned the main dividing line between Dominique Pelicot and the other fifty accused, the central question of the case: the knowledge that the latter had of the situation when they arrived in Mazan. The severity of the penalties imposed could depend in part on this element.
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