France – Giselle Peliko: My world collapsed, I sacrificed myself on the altar of debauchery, the 72-year-old testified about rape.

With Giselle’s testimony Peliko continued today (05.09.2024) the trial that has shocked not only the , where the crimes of 71-year-old Dominique Pelico were committed, but the entire world. Giselle Pelico began her testimony, around 9:30 (local time), from the day she learned the tragic truth, that for nine years her husband Dominique Pelico drugged her to rape her and strangers whom she invited home to France without her knowledge. “My world collapsed,” she said in her two-hour testimony and was mentioned when the police first showed her images of sexual abuse with the victim lying “dead” in bed, drugged to rape her. The 72-year-old, today, woman reported that on September 19, 2020, she learns that her 70-year-old husband was arrested and detained for filming under women’s skirts at a supermarket. Her husband admitted it by telling her that she had done something “stupid”. On November 2, 2020, she was called along with her husband to the Carpentras police station. He thought it was a “typical process”. She had no doubt about her husband: “Our lives were not perfect in those 50 years, but we were always together. Financial problems, relationship problems, health problems, I’ve always supported my husband.” Giselle was called separately by her husband to the police station. The interview lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes with a flood of questions: “The way the interview went, I didn’t understand…” he said. The policeman asked her to describe her husband. She describes a man “loving, nice guy”. The officer stopped questioning. He was about to give her a big revelation. It describes: “I will show you things that will not please you. She’s shaking her head: “You’re scaring me!” he says. In court, he adds: “I had no idea what he was going to show me”. Giselle Peliko continues: “It shows me a picture. I don’t have my glasses. I don’t recognize the woman in bed. He says “Mrs Peliko, look carefully”. I find it hard to recognize myself, I’m dressed in a certain way. In the third photo, I say to him, “Stop, these are rape scenes. I sleep and they rape me. Rape is not a good word, that’s barbaric. All I want to do is run to my house,” Peliko told the police officer, according to what she testified today at the trial. The victim takes breath and continues: “My world is falling apart. […] Everything I built with Mr. Pelicus is falling apart. Three children, seven grandchildren, one pair tied. Even our friends said we were the ideal couple.” “I can’t imagine what I’ll find out next,” he says in the courtroom. After her husband was detained, police organized an investigation at their home to examine his computer. Police then discovered a series of videos the defendant had filmed, which showed his wife being filmed, unconscious, and sexually abused by men. “I sacrificed myself to the altar of debauchery” Giselle Pelico says she has watched all the videos her husband took. “They are not sex scenes, they are rape scenes, there are two or three of them on me. I’m unconscious. I’ve never done a threesome or swinging”. AP Photo/Lewis Joly The victim added: “I sacrificed myself on the altar of debauchery (…) When you see this woman, drugged, abused, “dead” in a bed, of course the body is not cold, it is warm, but I am as if dead.” “These men abuse me, exploit me”. “I am not an accomplice at all, I never pretended to sleep” was then clarified by the woman who talks for the first time about what she tragically went through from 2011 to 2020 due to her husband’s perversion of answering the argument put yesterday by defending the 71-year-old defendant. “I am no accomplice, I never pretended to sleep, never anything. I can swear it if necessary,” says Giselle Peliko. Finally in chemical submission Peliko then claimed that she wanted her testimony to be made public, so that “no woman would submit to the seminal submission”. The term “chemical submission” is international and used for victims who were drugged and subsequently raped. “This is why I did not want the trial to be closed. I do so on behalf of all those women who may never be identified as victims.” “Take responsibility for your actions at least once in your life” The president of the court asked Giselle Peliko what she thinks of what the 51 accused said, 35 of whom refused any intention of rape. “I think they should admit the facts – anything else is unbearable. There’s already a feeling of disgust. Take responsibility for your actions at least once in your life,” he said. After two hours of testimony, Giselle confided that inside her is a ruin and hopes that “justice will be exemplary”.