At the end of the rape trial in Avignon, waves rose again. While defendant Dominique Pelicot expressed remorse for what he had done to his family, his daughter made it clear that she wanted nothing more to do with him. “You will die alone, like a dog!” she shouted at her father in the courtroom.
Pelicot had made his wife available dozens of times for strangers to rape while she was drugged and unconscious. Their daughter is also a suspected victim of the now accused: in addition to rape videos of her mother, nude photos of Caroline Darian were also found on Pelicot’s PC. She was also unconscious in the photos.
Uncertainty about actions against her bothers her daughter
To this day, she doesn’t know how these photos of her came to be – or whether her father did anything else to her. Dominique Pelicot claimed in court that he had no explanation for the nude photos of his daughter on his computer. He swears he can’t remember; he never insulted his children and grandchildren.
But the uncertainty as to whether there is also incest torments the French woman; the doubt would “consume her on a slow fire,” Darian’s lawyer said. In court Wednesday, her emotions finally got the better of her: When her father meekly explained that he wanted to look her in the eye one more time and that he couldn’t bear to see her in “this condition,” she screamed at him. “I’m not coming to see you, Dominique,” she shouted. “You will die alone, like a dog!”
Mother-daughter relationship apparently broken
Particularly tragic: the grueling trial for the victims, which began in early September, has apparently put severe strain on the relationship between Caroline Darian and her mother Gisele Pelicot. According to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine”, the relationship between women is considered broken. While they visibly clung to each other at the start of the trial, mother and daughter barely looked at each other on Wednesday.
Darian would hate that Gisele does not want to completely banish from her memory the time she spent with her husband, to whom she was married for fifty years. “It is not for me to judge him. I am a very positive person and I think the best of Dominique Pelicot should be remembered,” the 71-year-old said on Tuesday. That’s why she hasn’t forgiven him: “I haven’t forgiven anything,” she clarified.
Source: Krone
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