Dominique Pelicot admitted during the Avignon trial what he is accused of drugging his wife for years to offer her to dozens of men that they also sexually abused her, who is a rapist, like the rest of the accused. “I am a rapist, like all the accused present in this room, who knew their condition when they came,” he said, referring to the fact that the other men knew that his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, was unconscious because of the anxiolytics he gave her.
Pélicot appeared in court for a deposition that had been postponed for a week due to his health condition, which forced him to be admitted in a hospital center. The main accused of this megaprocess He cried remembering his childhood and the alleged abuse he says he suffered when I was 9 years old, and the rape he witnessed when he was 14However, his sister claimed to be unaware of the abuse.
For nearly a decade, the main man involved in this affair proposed to his wife to they will mistreat her repeatedly because she liked to see how other men touched her. Gisèle Pelicot, 71, was still unconscious because her now ex-husband was drugging her with anti-anxiety drugs.
The chemical submission was so powerful that to this day he doesn’t remember anything about what happened. “When she woke up, my father explained to her that she had lost consciousness, that she was very tired,” says the victim’s daughter, Carolina Darian.
Pelicot acted with total Impunity between 2011 and 2020 in MazanFrance, until the police discovered him by chance four years ago for filming the skirts of several women in a supermarket. She was arrested and when they searched her computer equipment, they found thousands of photos and videos of the abuse Gisèle suffered.
Now, about 50 men have been charged with the rapes. Most of them told authorities they thought the woman was pretending to be asleep. The victim herself, who contracted four sexual diseases following the rapes and suffering from severe post-traumatic stress, requested that The trial is public.
