Dominique Pelicotthe French who For almost ten years he drugged his wife and offered her in an unconscious state so that dozens of men could rape her. He is still absent from the Avignon trial this Wednesday. and the timing of his scheduled statement remains up in the air. The main accused appeared at the start of the hearing before the Vaucluse Criminal Court on Wednesday morning, but his lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, asked that her client be allowed to withdraw for the time being. same abdominal problems who has already justified that he has not been present since Monday.
President Roger Arata let him return to prison and requested that undergo a medical examination so that the court can know exactly his state of health and determine whether his testimony, initially scheduled for Tuesday, could be scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The lawyer stressed that so far his client did not receive medication for the ailments he says he has been suffering from since last Friday. He was briefly hospitalized on Tuesday.
The presiding judge considered the possibility of moving his statement to Thursday afternoon, but subject to his health and the rest of the scheduled agenda. Zavarro has insisted in recent days that there was no maneuver by Dominique Pelicot to prevent his statement, quite the contrary, and that he was “impatient” to be able to speak in front of his ex-wife, Gisèle, and his children, who are watching this process that began on September 2.
Gisèle Pelicot entered the courtroom on Wednesday without the sunglasses she had been wearing in previous days. Her ex-husband (the divorce was finalized last month) He is sitting on the bench with 50 other men who were identified in the photo and video files he kept for having had relations between 2011 and 2020 with Gisèle Pelicot while she was unconscious, drugged with anxiolytics.
