Pelicot has admitted drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, and inviting at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her
Pelicot has admitted drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, and inviting at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse herFrench prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisèle, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade.
Pelicot has admitted the charges. Most of the others have admitted abusing Gisèle Pelicot but denied rape, suggesting they thought they were taking part in a couple’s fantasy. Hours later, Salima Saa, France’s equality minister, unveiled new measures to combat violence against women and sexual abuse, two days after tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated in cities claiming the government’s actions were “window dressing”.Courtroom sketch of Dominique Pelicot. Prosecutors said even the maximum sentence was ‘not long enough given the gravity of the facts’.The prime minister, Michel Barnier, said the Pelicot trial had shocked the country and was a watershed moment.
She said Pelicot’s arrest owed much to a security guard at the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras who stopped him filming under the skirts of four women in September 2020 and removed his phone, on which 300 photos and films of the abuse of his wife were found. Police found a total of 20,000 videos and photos on phones and hard drives at the couple’s rented home in Mazan where they had lived for more than a decade after retiring.
Chabaud said reducing Dominique Pelicot to a man of two faces was “reductive” and he was “capable of declaring his love for Gisèle Pelicot and saying that he has a great deal of respect for her, yet he does not suffer from any mental pathology and is therefore fully responsible”.
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