The trial that shocks France: Guilty stated the 71-year-old who drugged and raped his wife with others

“Guilty” said 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot, who drugged and raped his wife Gisele P for years, in a case that shocks . Another 14 co-defendants admitted their guilt. The children of the couple Dominique Pelicot and Gisele P broke, hearing the endless indictment of their father who drugged and raped her, for a decade, along with dozens of strangers from France, whom she recruited online. The children came out visibly shocked by the courtroom, after the long and brutal presentation of events, with details causing nausea. Giselle, 72 years old today, remained stoic and let no emotion appear on the second day of the hearing for an unprecedented case in French judicial journals. The woman, the main victim, is facing the 51 defendants in the Vokliz criminal court, Avignon. In addition to her husband, 50 other men, aged 26 to 74, are being prosecuted for rape with aggravating circumstances and if found guilty may be sentenced to 20 years in prison. During the presentation of the events by the court’s president, Roger Arata, who summed up, with a monotonous and cold tone, the 31 volumes of the indictment, the main defendant, Dominique P., was looking in plain sight. Sometimes he talked to his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro, who sat on the other side of the glass cage where the defendants are. Then, with a simple “yes”, the 71-year-old retired, the “planner” of rape according to the prosecution, admitted his guilt. When asked in turn one by one, only 14 of his 48 co-conspirators present admitted the facts. The three even apologized to the victim. One of the defendants escapes and is tried in absentia while a second was absent from court today for health reasons. “I stopped calling you Dad” Sitting next to Giselle, the couple’s three children had difficulty retaining their feelings during this long and charged day. The couple have been in divorce since the facts were revealed. Twice, Caroline Darian (ed. the nickname used by Giselle’s daughter for her book released in 2022, “I stopped calling you Dad”) was forced to leave the hall, while she was shocked by the sobbing. Supported by her brothers, Caroline “broken” when the president of the court referred to the photographs of the photomontage product found on her father’s computer and where she appeared naked… “For children, the pain is enormous,” said their lawyer, Antoine Kami, in an interruption of the trial. “Carolin had to go out, it was unbearable. Although they did not discover anything new, although they knew the case, it was particularly difficult today morning, but necessary,” he added. On Monday Giselle P. and her children disagreed with the defense advocates’ request to hold the closed-door trial. On the contrary, they demanded that everything be made public “so that shame change camp”. Before returning to her place, after her second exit from the hall, Caroline Daryan stopped for a moment in front of the glass cage where the 18 inmates sit. He looked at them, but no one raised their eyes to see her. Not even her father, whom she now calls her “born.” A total of 72 the rapists of Giselle P. Of the 51 accused 18, including the husband, remain in custody. The rest had been released on bail. Those detained are those who went many times to rape Giselle P. – some, up to six times – or had a criminal record, earlier convictions for domestic violence or rape, even children. In addition to the main defendant, only 50 of Giselle P.’s total 72 rapists recorded in photographs and videos by her own husband were identified and found, following an investigation that was completely initiated by chance, on September 12, 2020. That day Dominique P. was arrested in a Carpentras supermarket, in southern France, for filming under their skirts the customers. In the interrogation he said he had “destinations” that “could not control”. However, in the successive, repeated investigations that followed, police officers fell upon thousands of photographs and videos where his wife, drugged and unconscious, was portrayed as being raped by strangers. Rape began in July 2011, when the couple still lived in Paris and continued from March 2013 to October 2020, after moving to Mazan, a picturesque hamlet near Mount Vadu. On Wednesday, September 4, police officers are to testify how the defendants were arrested. The next day, Thursday (05.09.2024), Giselle P.