One of the most 50 accused in the trial for grated In Avignon (France) who shocked half the world, did the same thing with his wife as the main accused, Dominique Pelicotwith the victim, Gisele Pelicot. Apparently, Jean-Pierre Maréchal63, also gave his partner sedatives to mistreat her, which would not have happened, according to the testimony of one of their daughters, if Jean-Pierre Maréchal had not met Dominique Pélicot, who supplied Gisèle Pélicot with anxiolytics as well as other men. could rape her while she was unconscious.
Jean-Pierre Maréchal, then aged 53, does not deny his wife’s testimony and believes that he deserves to be sentenced to life sentenceas he admitted at the beginning of the legal process that has been taking place in France since September 2 and will last until one or two weeks before the start of Christmas. However, try to to understand their behavior following trauma after having been a victim of rape and abuse himself and having lived in a family where the mother was an alcoholic and the father violent. This story could be a mitigating factor for the accused.
Jean-Pierre Maréchal’s daughter, although she attributes her father’s criminal behavior to the influence the main accused had on him, described what he did to her mother as “unforgivable”, as she stressed in court on Wednesday. Vauclase Criminal Courtwhere he also confessed to not understanding anything. He also used anxiolytics to leave her without willpower, since she was “learning” from the main accused as if she were a student, and he even provided her with the medication.
It was Dominique Pélicot who convinced Jean-Pierre Maréchal to apply. your method with his wife, whom he also raped. They did it together even in 12 occasions. She decided not to report him, but she testified at the hearing on Wednesday.
The victim woke up
They raped her without her being conscious, until one night in June 2020. The victim woke up just as they were attacking her. She was able, although with difficulty, to distinguish another man present in the room, even though Pélicot fled and her husband invented that she was there because she wanted to see his underwear, which he justified by alluding to his bisexuality. He did not believe it, but he was also unable to imagine the reality. Like his children, he discovered it when the police showed up at his house to arrest him and when he learned that among the photos they had found on Pélicot’s computer, there were also dozens of images of her naked in her bed.
The two accused in question met during a sex dating forumclosed by the police last June. The contact with Pélicot would have caused, according to his defense, the trauma of Maréchal will explode and that it was more vulnerable to be manipulated for the first.
The trial, which opened in early September in France, has raised great expectations around the world, not only because of the unusual nature of the case, but also because of the victim’s decision: Gisèle Pélicot has asked that it be held openly. expose the more than 50 defendants – the men who appear in the videos who have been identified – to the press and public opinion and thus attempt to shame the defendants or, as their lawyer put it, “so that Shame will change sides“.
Dominique Pélicot drugged his wife for a decade and handed her over to more than 50 men to rape her in her bedroom at his home in Mazan, southern France. He was arrested in September 2020 for record under the skirt women in a supermarket. Following this arrest, the police discovered in their possession hundreds of photos and videos in which dozens of men were abusing their drugged wives.
The main accused has not yet attended any hearing of the trial due to illness. We find hospitalized due to kidney complications, its onset was therefore delayed and, in principle, He will testify next Monday. The children he shares with the victim have decided not to testify until their father is present in the room, because they want to force him to listen to what they have to say.
