Lawyers criticise prison authorities for acting late in case of 71-year-old accused along with more than 50 other men
The trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men accused of rape has been adjourned again after it was reported he was suffering from kidney problems and had refused to leave his prison cell.
“This could all have been avoided if he’d been treated from Monday . Why did they wait eight days?” Pelicot’s defence lawyer Béatrice Zavarro asked outside the court in Avignon. “Of course she is worried. She finds herself in a very difficult situation, as we all are. The trial is really at a very early stage; it has hardly even started. There is the presentation of the videos and the interrogation of the principal accused to come.”hundreds of protesters
“I was deeply touched by this movement … thanks to you all I have the strength to fight this to the end. I dedicate this fight to all people, women and men, who are victims of sexual violence across the world. To all those victims I say today look around you, you are not alone.” The accused were aged between 26 and 73 when they were arrested and include a local councillor, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant. Many were the couple’s neighbours in the small town of Mazan, near Avignon in southernSeveral of the men insist they were unaware Pelicot had been drugged and assumed the sex was consensual. If convicted of rape they face up to 20 years in jail.
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