President of this criminal court composed of five professional magistrates, Roger Arata coldly began his reading of the summary of a 31-volume case, for which 51 men will be judged over four months, without any prior word for Gisèle P. and her three children, many intimate details of whom will be revealed throughout the day.
It was when Roger Arata explained that photomontages of Caroline, naked, were also found on his computer, in a folder titled “Around my daughter, naked”, that the latter collapsed in tears, supported by her two brothers and her mother. Then, faced with the litany of details, she left the room trembling, escorted by her two brothers and her lawyer, Me Antoine Camus, before reappearing some twenty minutes later.
72 men recorded
“Given the number of accused, the mass of information seized and in order to have information for everyone, the upcoming reading will be concise and focused on the salient points of the case,” Roger Arata simply specified. If, without counting the husband, 72 men in total were identified by the investigators, from the photos and videos of the facts taken by Dominique P. himself, only 50 were identified and arrested, risking up to 20 years of imprisonment for aggravated rape.
As the president of the Vaucluse criminal court recalled, this case broke out on September 12, 2020, when Dominique P., now 71, was apprehended by a security guard in a supermarket in Carpentras (Vaucluse), after filming customers up their skirts. When questioned, he explained that he had “acted on impulses” that he “could not control.”
