“She’s not finished”, this very popular singer sends her support to Gisèle Pelicot (VIDEO)

“She’s not finished”, this very popular singer sends her support to Gisèle Pelicot (VIDEO)
“She’s not finished”, this very popular singer sends her support to Gisèle Pelicot (VIDEO)

While the hearings were over and the lawyers presented their indictments against those accused of the Mazan rapes, a very popular singer wanted to send her support to Gisèle Pélicot, appearing in tears on television and even literally overwhelmed by the 'emotion.

After long weeks during which the 51 accused in the Mazan rape trial, we are now waiting to know the verdict which should fall no later than December 20. All men are being prosecuted for having sexually assaulted or raped Gisele Pelicot with the complicity of her ex-husband, under their roof, between the months of July 2011 and October 2020. The septuagenarian would never have given her consent and would have repeatedly undergone unwanted chemical submission, allowing Dominique Pelicot to invite all these men into their house to have sex while she was asleep. The scenes were filmed and the videos broadcast before the Criminal Court, Gisèle Pelicot having agreed that the trial be public.

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In recent days, the requisitions have been made against Dominique Pelicot who risks the maximum sentence, and against the 51 other accused, with disparities depending on the acts accused, their psychological profile which had been drawn up by experts and dissected at the courthouse, and facts of recidivism. Dominique Pelicot, for his part, had a last word to ask for forgiveness through his lawyer, even though he had refused to recognize a few days earlier the acts of rape in which his daughter Caroline Darian accuses her and who now pushes her to work on a vast project so that no more women have to suffer this type of violence.

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Lio with tears in his eyes facing Aurélie Casse

The Mazan trial is highly publicized, and it is for this reason that several personalities took the floor to express their support for Gisèle Pelicot, like Vianney who had also decided to suspend his X account (ex-Twitter) after his lukewarmly received speech. Alexandra Lamy et Renaud also wanted to express themselves, just like the singer Lio in turn on Saturday, November 30, on television. The interpreter of Banana Split who is currently preparing a new album with the support of her admirers is the guest ofAurélie Casse in the show It's the weekly broadcast early in the evening on 5. When discussing the affair, she actually has difficulty hiding her emotion, as we can see in an extract published before the broadcast of the program on social networks.

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“I see that your eyes even get moist when you hear Gisèle Pélicot?”asks the host facing Lio, first of all. “Because I find it beautiful and I don’t see why I wouldn’t accept that emotion. It’s a restorative emotion. It’s beautiful, it’s good. I’m not going to deprive myself of it”added the one who participated in a demonstration bringing together 100 activists on the square in front of the Louvre on the occasion of the International Day Against Violence Against Women. Following this, Lio wanted to both thank and congratulate Gisèle Pelicot. She has all my admiration. And I send him all my courage, because I know what it is to have children, grandchildren…”continues the woman who was also a victim of domestic violence in the 1990s and who revealed earlier this year that she had been raped at the age of 10. “It never ends”she insisted in particular.

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The world of cinema and music affected

The mother of six children, all adults today, makes a similar speech on the set of France 5. “I know what it’s like to go to school, I know what it’s like to hear. She is also not done with this family sufferingwhich is that his children and his grandchildren are going to be confronted with all of this. And the children are big, but the grandchildren are small, and it doesn't just go away, believe me. Believe me. It doesn't go away like that…”concludes the artist, with tears in his eyes.

This intervention comes at a time when other cases targeting personalities in musical culture are being implicated, on the grounds of rape and/or sexual assault. Recently, the names of rappers Naps and Nekfeu were discussed, as well as that of Slimane against which two complaints were filed by two different men for sexual harassment and assault. The world of cinema is not left out and, after the latest revelations of Judith Godrèche and the sentencing of Nicolas Bedos to prison, a new case involving the responsibility of Gérard Darmon is currently causing a lot of ink to flow…

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