“Submitting a rebellious woman was my fantasy”, declares Dominique Pelicot during his last interrogation

His daughter, Caroline Darian, violently insulted him on Tuesday. “You will die a lie and alone, Dominique Pelicot!”, she screamed.

The Mazan rape trial is coming to an end. After hearing the 51 accused During eleven weeks of hearings, the Vaucluse criminal court questioned Dominique Pelicot for the last time on Tuesday, November 19. “I must admit that subduing a rebellious woman was my fantasy, out of pure selfishness, without making her suffer”declared the septuagenarian, to explain this decade of repeated rapes against his now ex-wife, Gisèle Pelicot, at their home in Mazan (Vaucluse), between July 2011 and October 2020. “Here’s my mobile”he added.

Described as the “conductor” of this extraordinary case, Dominique Pelicot, 71 years old, however clarified that he had committed these rapes “through people who have voluntarily accepted” what he “I proposed[t]“namely these dozens of men that he had recruited on the internet, via the site coco.gg.

Faced with his ex-wife and their three children, David, Caroline and Florian, sitting on the bench of the civil parties, the main accused however denied having made the slightest incestuous gesture against his daughter, of which he had broadcast on social networks photos of her naked and visibly asleep, sometimes wearing her mother's underwear.

Caroline is “completely destroyed”, she needs a “audible and human response”insisted Antoine Camus, one of the family's lawyers, by questioning Dominique Pelicot, trying to obtain a confession from the accused. “What saddens me the most is that people believe I am capable of certain things that I am not capable of doing”he replied, repeating not “remember taking these photos” : “I don’t try to convince her with perverse answers, (…) I tell her straight in the eyes that I have never touched her”he continued. “Caroline, I never did anything to you”he insisted, speaking directly to his daughter.

At the other end of the room, in front of him, his daughter Caroline Darian violently insulted him. “You're lying! You're not telling half the truth, even about your ex-wife!”she said, very angry. “You will die a lie and alone, Dominique Pelicot!”she screamed. The hearing will resume on Wednesday with the pleadings of the civil parties.