The main defendant admitted the facts before the judge and cried at the memory of the abuse he claims to have suffered and the assault he witnessed when he was a minor. Pelicot appeared before the Avignon court after his statement was postponed last week due to his state of health.
Dominique Pelicotthe man accused of drugging his wife for nearly a decade so he and others could rape her into unconsciousness. has acknowledged the facts and all charges brought against him at the trial held in Avignon (France).
‘I am a rapist, just like all the other suspects, who knew everything’he stated, referring to the fact that the other men knew that his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, was unconscious due to the anxiolytics he was giving her.
Pelicot was present at the Vaucluse Criminal Court for a statement that was postponed for a week due to his state of health and which led to the suspension of the hearings last Friday and yesterday, Monday.
After beginning his statement through tears, recounting the sexual abuse he says he suffered when he was nine years old and the assault he witnessed when he was 14, he acknowledged the charges he is accused of “in their entirety.”
“He didn’t deserve this”he stressed in reference to his wife, after insisting that the other fifty men sitting next to him on the bench were aware of his procedures and “couldn’t say otherwise.”
A total of 51 men are being tried in the trial of Dominique Pelicot. Some of the defendants claim that they did not know that Gisèle Pelicot was unconscious, under the influence of anxiolytics, when they had sexual relations with her, and that they thought that it was all part of the sexual fantasies that the couple shared, and that there was therefore consent from both.
In response to this first statement by Dominique Pelicot, the victim She has stated that in the 50 years she lived with her husband, she could not imagine him raping her, that she did not doubt him “even for a second” and that she trusted him.
Source: EITB
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