Woman was abused by 51 men, her husband drugged her: she wants a public trial

PARIS (EFE).— Gisèle Pélicot, victim of abuse by 51 men: her husband drugged her, French woman whose husband the drugs so that other men would rape her While she was unconscious, she was the victim of at least 92 sexual abuses committed by 51 menunder the influence of drugs that her husband supplied her and declared that wants the trial process to be done in public so that no other woman suffers chemical submission.

Ella I had been losing hair and weight for years. He had begun to forget entire days and sometimes seemed to be in another world. His children and friends feared he had Alzheimer’s.

But at the end of 2020, after being summoned to a police station in the south of France, she learned of aa much more heartbreaking story.

Dominique Pelicot, her husband of 50 years, had been mixing drugs her food and drink to put her into a deep sleeppolice said, and then raped her.

He entered his house dozens of men to record them while they raped herin an abuse that lasted almost a decade.

Now, a total of 51 accusedwhich have between 26 and 74 years oldhave been appearing in Avignon since Monday in a trial that has shocked France, to determine their responsibility for the alleged rapes.

The defendants represent a a mix of French middle-class and working-class society: truck drivers, soldiers, carpenters and workers, a prison guarda nurse, a computer expert who works for a bank, a local journalist. Many have children and are in some relationship.

He wants it to be a public trial and for everyone to know about it.

“For me the evil is done,” Gisele Pelicot said in her first appearance before the Criminal Court of the Vaucluse department, before adding that He gave up on having everything done behind closed doorswants everyone to know.

“On behalf of all those women who may never be recognized as victims”.

The first time you will be a conscious witness to rapeaccording to his lawyer Antoine Camus, It will be in court When recordings are presented as evidence video.

Gisèle Pélicot was abused by 51 men, her husband drugged her

According to the instructors, Gisele, who is now 71 years oldwas raped dozens of times between 2011 and 2020 by dozens of men whom her husband, Dominique, contacted so that, in a kind of “voyeurism”, they had sexual relations with her, who was not aware of anything because she was under the effects of anxiolytics.

Dominique Pelicot, who met his wife in 1971 and He had three children with her (currently 34 to 47 years old), confessed to investigators that He did it because he “liked to see.”

In the psychological examination that was done on him, a voyeuristic sexual deviance y “a perverse personality.”

As for his wife, whom He was diagnosed with four sexually transmitted diseases directly attributable to the rapes of which she had no memory, she also suffers from severe post-traumatic stress with suicidal thoughts.

The couple had moved in 2013, after their retirement, from the Paris region to the town of Mazan in the department of Vaucluse.

Gisèle Pélicot’s criminal husband is discovered by mistake

The apparent normality was blown to smithereens on September 12, 2020 when the husband was arrested by the security guards of a supermarket in the city of Carpentras for having filmed under the skirts of several women.

The police officers who went to analyze his computer equipment To investigate these events, they found archives of thousands of photos and videos. in which his wife appeared unconscious and in which the abuse to which she had been subjected could be seen.

From there, in the instruction phase, they were counted 92 rapes and were identified 50 men of different condition and that, according to Dominique Pelicot, They knew that Gisèle was under the influence of medication when they had sex with her.

Few of them, however, admitted it to investigators and that will be one of the key issues to determine the degree of responsibility for the crime of aggravated rape, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Most claimed they thought the woman was pretending to be asleep. But according to leaks to the media, the videos leave little doubt on that point.

As for the main defendant, Dominique, the inclusion of his DNA in the court files has served to link him and incriminate him for a Murder of a 23-year-old woman in Paris in December 1991 and for one Attempted rape of another 19-year-old in May 1999 in the town of Villeparisis, about thirty kilometres from the French capital.

Trial Declaration

Gisèle Pélicot testified yesterday in Avignon at the trial of 51 alleged rapists.

“I think I have said everything I could say. It is an exercise that It’s not easyI have tried to answer as best as possible. It is necessary to fight until the end“This process will last four months,” he told reporters upon leaving the Palace of Justice.

Yesterday morning, the victim told the court that “The police saved my life” while searching on Mr. P.’s computer, which is how she referred to the man who has been her husband for half a century and with whom she is in the process of divorce.

“These are not sex scenes, they are rape scenes. There are two or three on top of me and I am inert”he said.

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