The sister of Dominique Pélicot, the 71-year-old man, accused in France of multiple rapes Regarding his wife under chemical submission, he assured this Monday that he was unaware alleged cases of abuse and traumatic episodes he suffered as a childThis is what he told the judge in his testimony, while this Tuesday Pélicot’s deposition was postponed – without a date – after he claimed that he was ill.
“I didn’t know anything“, said Ginette Pélicot during her testimony on the alleged incidents that occurred when Dominique Pélicot I was 9 and 13 years old. “I found out much later,” he added. The accused claims that at the age of 9 he was sexually assaulted in a hospital and that at the age of 13 he had another traumatic episode, while he allegedly witnessed a multiple rapebut his sister, already married, He said he didn’t know anything about it.
“I didn’t even know (at the time) that he had been in the hospital because when you get married, you each live your own life. I wasn’t there to watch what they were doing,” the woman said. already 84 years oldon certain alleged facts What part of the defense strategy is the rape case of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot based on?. In any case, he added that he had not observed any changes in his little brother’s personality.
A “rather violent” father
Ginette Pélicot stressed that his stepfather and Dominique’s father “was quite violent, jealous, and the mothers were completely in love with this man.” She explained that she and her brother had “problems getting married” due to the father’s opposition and that she had married early to flee home. She also assured that she had found revealed “by the press” the arrest of her brother in November 2020, which He didn’t let me visit him in prison and that he no longer has contact with him.
“I don’t agree at all with what he did, but he’s my brother“, he said. The old woman’s testimony ended this Monday at the Avignon court where Dominique Pélicot is being tried for having drugged his wife for years so that other men could rape her and 51 individuals who can be identified for the videos recorded by the main accused.
Recordings of his daughter and other women
The events took place between 2011 and 2020 in Mazan (south-east of France) and also include recordings to one of the girls and other women in the familyMost of the day was devoted to the testimony of several psychiatrists and psychologists who presented their professional opinions to the court after questioning Pélicot.
Psychologist Annabelle Montagne explained that the main accused is a self-centered narcissist who had uncontrollable desire to fulfill his sexual fantasies, but he stressed that He had no mental problems or mental illness. This prevented him from distinguishing right from wrong. Psychiatrist Paul Bensussan explained that Pélicot “has no moral limits” and that it involves various paraphilias, including voyeurism, and specified that this case “is not a game of domination-submission, because there is no consent.” from one of the parties.
He also highlighted “the notable coldness, the lack of empathy” as well as the “objectification” of Pélicot towards his now ex-wife, since the divorce was made official at the end of last month. EFE
