On Wednesday, November 27, a page was turned in the Mazan rape trial, with the end of three days of searches against the 51 defendants, one of whom is a fugitive. Speaking for the last time, General Counsel Laure Chabaud attempted “looking to the future”. Calling on the accused to stop hiding behind “the magic formula” – “I recognize the facts, not the intention” – she formed the desire for a “real consciousness” about what they are accused of and about “the notion of consent.”
“Some have started walking. For others, we are still very far away.” she observed. Addressing the five judges of the Vaucluse criminal court, he added: “With his verdict he means that ordinary rape does not exist. That accidental or involuntary violation does not exist. that there is no destiny for women and it is not inevitable to act for men. And you will guide us in the education of our children. It is through education that change will occur. »
What should we remember from the necessarily laborious exercise that the two representatives of the prosecution had previously undertaken? On one side of the spectrum is Dominique Pelicot, the only one against whom the maximum incurred (twenty years) was demanded. To symbolically distinguish “the cornerstone of this archive”, HE “XXL Pervert” described by psychiatrists, author of only one hundred rapes against his wife, of the other accused, the highest sentence demanded after his was eighteen years. With the exception of the only defendant prosecuted for the crime of sexual assault, against whom four years in prison with an order of admission was requested, no sentence of less than ten years was requested.
mixed lives
The message addressed to the court and beyond it, to public opinion, is therefore clear: it establishes a kind of “minimum sentence” for all others prosecuted for attempted rape or gang rape. Therefore, in a deliberately reduced framework (eight years) prosecutor Jean-François Mayet and advocate general Laure Chabaud distributed the remaining forty-nine defendants. The more the requisitions progressed, the more this limitation reached its limits. Forty-nine defendants, aged between 27 (Joan K.) and 74 years (Jean-Marc L.), are forty-nine personalities, forty-nine paths of life.
The two representatives of the prosecution spent an average of ten minutes each. Ten minutes, in which it was necessary to remember the accused’s position on the facts (acknowledgment or not), his first statements in police custody, the quite detailed evocation of the video images that concern him, the resumption of one or two sentences pronounced at the hearing, a summary of the psychological and psychiatric tests, another of his criminal record, before concluding with a request for sentencing.
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