“It’s the trial of an entire destroyed family”declared this Monday the eldest son of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot, David, who declared for the first time before the Avignon court in the largest case of rape by chemical submission in France.
The two sons of the former couple, David and Florian, aged respectively 50 and 38, spoke out in the home stretch of this media affair, in which the rapes suffered by their mother are being investigated. for a decade by their father who drugged her. with powerful sleeping pills and in turn He proposed it on the Internet to dozens of men so that they could do the samewhile he recorded everything.
The eldest of them addressed himself directly to the president of the court, Roger Arata, to ask him to be “equal to” the suffering he suffered with his brothers and that the accused, starting with his father, “be punished for their horrors.”
David Pelicot also looked at his father’s face, to say: “Tell us what you did to my sister and my children”. From the start of the trial, Caroline Darian maintained that her father took photos of her while she was drugged and raped heras he did for 10 years with his mother, Gisèle Pelicot.
“I gave the maximum of what I could to my children, to my grandchildren, I hope that one day you will have proof that nothing happened. I took them into consideration. photo because I was being blackmailed,” the man tried to justify.
“I apologize”Dominique Pelicot insisted to his son David. “Never,” he repeated several times to his father. Throughout his interrogation, his sister Caroline cried, as did Florian, who could not hold back his tears during his statement.
“Why did you do that? You said our mother was a saint, but you were the devil”asked Florian, 38, who says that after the revelation of all these events he “lost” his father and his three children, their grandfather.
Florian, the youngest son of the Pélicots, on his arrival at court.
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Finally, Carolina Darian, the couple’s daughter, 45, took the floor and took advantage of her new statement to emphasize her belief that she had been raped by her father. “It’s not a hypothesis, I know“, said.
This Tuesday This will be the last statement from Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot before sentencing.
The intention of the president of the Avignon district court, Roger Arata, is to start this Wednesday with the requests for sentences from the private prosecution, that is to say Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers. Thursday would be the floor’s turn, which would last until Friday.
Next week, it would be the turn of the defenses. The judgment is expected on December 20.
