France – The Speeches of Giselle Peliko lawyers: “No one can predict what change this trial can bring”

After completing Dominique’s examination Pelico, the trial of Giselle Pelico continues today Wednesday (20.11.2024) in the Avignon court in the address of Giselle’s two lawyers, Antoine Camus and Stéphane Babonneau. Beatrice Zavarro, the only advocate of the main accused of his wife’s rapes in France, asked her client, Dominique Pelico, if she has any final words to tell his family. “I regret. For some that will never be enough. I have never touched children and children of my children,” said Giselle’s ex-husband and arranger of her rapes for a decade. Then the main accused spoke of Giselle. “This is part of what is most essential I hold deep in me,” said Dominique Pelico with Giselle crying out. Dominique Pelico was examined yesterday by the lawyers of both sides. The 71-year-old reported, first of all to his children: “I recognize that I hurt them but not at this extent. I insist I never touched my children or grandchildren. I have them in my heart.” Caroline’s daughter broke out against her father and yelled at him: “You’re lying. I’m sick of your lies. You’re alone with your lies. You will die lying”, when he told her earlier: “Carolin I never touched you”. Lawyer Antoine Camus first started his speech saying: “I have a responsibility as a servant of justice to convey the voice of our clients (Giselle and her three children) and as a man of my generation to stand at the height of the courage and dignity they demonstrated these months”. Giselle Pelico’s young lawyer continued his speech saying: “How in France of 2024 can a woman suffer what Giselle Peliko experienced for at least 10 years? How in France of 2024 can we find at least 50 people to benefit without retribution from an inactive body, a body that we would think was dead? No one can predict what change this trial can bring…”. He stressed that this trial should lay the foundations for a change of mindset about the seriousness of the concept of rape under French law. Giselle Peliko’s lawyer said that the 72-year-old is the victim of “team rape” committed by her husband for 10 years, but in French law this term is “insufficient”. “Everyone, leaving this house of horror had realized that earlier others had visited it and others will come later. No one reported it. Everyone has contributed to this immorality,” Antoine Camus said in his speech. ” Chemical submission is the perfect crime” Lawyer Antoine Camus denounced the ” diabolical modus operanti” used by Dominim Pelico. “How can one imagine that danger comes from a safe and loving home?” he asks. “She woke up every morning in bed for 10 years with the man who shared her life for 50 years and who did not beat her. The same man who made her an appointment with the doctor, who lectured her about taking great care of her grandchildren, the same man who accompanied her to the gynecologist,” she reminded the court. “The chemical submission is nothing but the mode of action of perfect crime,” he concludes. Antoine Camus completed his shocking speech saying that Giselle Pelico chose to “exceed her darkness by telling her story”. “She chose to turn this mud into something noble, move beyond her story and turn it into something. He is based on court to help her with this.” For his part Peliko’s other lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau referred to her decision not to be closed doors. After four years of revelations Giselle Pelico was prepared for “a second tsunami”, that of the trial, she said initially. “A sense of rebellion had taken over her, she did not want to let her control of her life be removed for the second time,” the lawyer explained. “There’s no reason to keep hiding, because she hasn’t done anything wrong. Let her story be useful, let the absurd gain meaning.” “Despite unnecessary humiliations, she never regretted her choice. Of the defendants he expected nothing and yet, even without expectations, most managed to fail.”