One of the sexual abuse sessions she was subjected to Gisele Pelicotunder anxiolytics lasted at least six hours with a single man, according to the conclusions of one of the experts who testified on Tuesday at the trial taking place in Avignon, in the south-east of France.
Expert Olivier Eymard, who examined the computer equipment seized from Dominique Pelicot, Gisèle’s husband, explained before the Vaucluse criminal court that This duration was estimated from the analysis of five videos successive videos in which the same man appears. He did so in response to questions from the victim’s lawyers who wanted to know the exact dates on which the videos and photographs seized from Dominique Pelicot in 2020 were taken and which constitute the main basis of the accusation.
Eymard wanted to leave “Of course, the last modification date (of each video) corresponds to the production” and this allows the duration of the sessions to be determined, in response to the controversy that had been generated because some lawyers wondered whether they were as long as the private prosecution claimed.
One of the accused stood up to reprimand the expert when he justified the reasons for his conclusions about this duration, but a lawyer ordered him to sit down. According to the conclusions of the official report, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife with anxiolytics between 2011 and 2020who rose to prominence after being arrested for filming women in high skirts in a supermarket in the town of Carpentras. He kept these recordings on a hard drive with dozens of men he had contacted online, largely through a contact platform that was later closed.
Dominique Pelicot was hospitalized this Tuesday due to a health problem that, according to his lawyer, had already started last Friday and that could have its origin in the urinary system. Yesterday, he was also absent shortly after the start of the hearing for the same reason.
The president of the court, Roger Arata, asked a medical report know their exact status because it is possible that if their absence were to be prolonged, the procedure would be temporarily suspended. judgement It started on the 2nd and should end a week or two before Christmas.
