The next day of the trial, the following disturbing details follow in the trial about the numerous rapes of the French Giséle Pelicot. A 37-minute video of the abuse was shown on Tuesday. “It was like sleeping with a corpse,” said one of the defendants.
The co-suspect, pensioner Mohamed R., had to appear in court on Wednesday. Like other previous suspects, the 70-year-old also stated that he had not received permission to have sex with the French woman. He still doesn’t want to let her be raped, after all, her husband made the agreement with him. Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife for more than ten years and offered her to at least fifty men for sex.
R. “felt like an actor”
A video recorded by her husband showed that R. also abused the woman. The 37-minute recording showed Pelicot, who had been sedated with sleeping pills, being abused on the night of May 6 to 7, 2019 – the victim herself had insisted that the acts be shown publicly.
He felt like an actor, quoted in the French broadcaster BFM TV. And further: “It was like sleeping with a corpse.” R. is no stranger to the court; In 1999, he was sentenced to five years in prison for raping his then 14-year-old daughter – he has already been convicted of five crimes in total.
The suspect already sees an “unfair” verdict
However, in the current trial he sees himself as a victim. Ultimately, he was psychologically damaged as a result of a difficult childhood and was lured into a ‘trap’ in the Pelicot case by his ex-partners and their children. He is therefore a victim of the legal system and is already awaiting an “incomprehensible and unjust” sentence.
Mohamed R. is one of the last seven men to be questioned in the enormous trial until the end of Friday’s hearing. Despite the seriousness of the violations, Giséle Pelicot insisted on being present on each of the many days of the trial. It wasn’t until Monday that the descriptions of an unreasonable defendant became too much for her, so she left the room without further ado.
Perpetrators risk a prison sentence of up to twenty years
A total of 51 men must answer for abusing the 72-year-old. The numerous rapes only became known by chance in 2020, when a security guard caught her husband secretly filming women under their skirts with his mobile phone. Eventually, the violent additional videos were discovered on the device. The perpetrators risk a prison sentence of up to twenty years.
The court actually wanted to conduct the trial behind closed doors. But Pelicot decided to make her fate public: “Shame must change sides,” she emphasized. The ruling is expected in mid-December.
Source: Krone
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