“There is no doubt, these are violations”. This was the energetic response this Wednesday from one of the experts who analyzed the videos of the violations of Gisèle Pelicot. Rapes of 51 men occurring over 10 years, men to whom her husband Dominique Pelicot offered.
In these very harsh images, says the expert, we can see a woman who, without a doubt, is unconscious. He also claims that he can hear perfectly some defendants whisper so as not to wake her. Although some of these rapists insist that she was neither drugged nor asleep, one wonders why they were whispering then.
Vincent Coullet, one of the defendants who testified this Wednesday during the trial, deny the facts but he says that Gisèle never woke up, that she did not react at any time and that she never gave consent. And for him, it’s not rape.
Even though Coullet admitted that it all seemed very strange to him, he decided to come back another day to do the same thing: rape her. His explanations, his apologies and the lack of respect towards the victim during his story, going so far as to speak of her as if she were a merchandisean object to use, led to Gisèle must leave the roomvisibly angry. We even heard him say: “I can’t listen to this anymore.” A few minutes later, Gisèle returned to the room, once again demonstrating her admirable courage.
