Thank you Madam. If there is one thing we share in these troubled times, it is the desire to say thank you to Gisèle Pelicot. From the first day of the trial to the verdict on Thursday, his immense courage and profound dignity left their mark. In this case, shame changed sides and the judges condemned individuals who were guilty and capable of the worst. But if justice has respected the sacrosanct principle of the individualization of sentences, many neo-feminist associations have done the opposite by extending their fight to all ordinary men. The Mazan rape trial thus became the trial of patriarchy, rape culture and masculinity in general. In short, all rapists!
The reasoning is based on a supposedly unstoppable logic: the condemned are “ordinary men”, therefore all men are potentially potential rapists. Gentlemen, if we are to believe the enthusiasts of the feminist cause, you all have a little bit of Dominique Pelicot in you. And these same activists denounce – rightly – chemical submission but without finding anything to say when women are victims of Islamist submission.
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Beyond the trial of these cardboard feminists, I would especially like to say thank you to many ordinary men who took Ms. Pelicot's rapists to prison. These men are the forgotten ones of those who want us to believe that our husbands, our brothers and our sons are all guilty. So thank you to the security guard who pushed for the arrest of Dominique Pelicot. Thank you to the police officers from the Carpentras police station who persevered to discover a true museum of horrors. Thank you to the lawyers of the civil party, including Mr. Antoine Camus, who led during the trial an unflinching pleading to go far and high in this case where the shabby rubs shoulders with the sordid.
Without these everyday police officers, the truth would not have come out
The moment when the man who would become the main accused was spotted filming under the skirts of customers in a Carpentras supermarket will undoubtedly remain a seminal moment in the revelation of his crimes. “He's filming under your dress, on the phone like that, right now!” Are you filing a complaint?! » says the security guard to a lady visibly surprised by what is happening to her. In a video revealed by Paris Matchwe discover for the first time part of Dominique Pelicot's face, surgical mask on his nose. “Go police, direct police! You stay there, you don't move” intimates the security guard by grabbing the suspect's phone.
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It will take all the tenacity of the Carpentras police officers to pull the thread of the unspeakable. As police officer Linda Kebbab tells us, when they were seized of a voyeurism case four years ago, the officials of the personal attacks unit of the Urban Security Brigade of this town in Vaucluse could never have imagined such a thing. outcome. Without resources and faced with a complex procedure, the four police officers will go beyond the usual methodology to search the suspect's applications and discover videos whose viewing will not leave them unscathed. It will then be necessary to reveal the extent of the affair to the victim, Ms. Pelicot. Without these everyday police officers, ordinary men, the truth would not have come to light.
The role of the lawyers and in particular of Me Camus will come. With a youthful face and graying hair, he will be the first to plead for Gisèle Pelicot and her family. “Ms. Pelicot chose to transform this mud into noble material, and to go beyond the darkness of her history to find meaning in it. She is counting on the court to help her. » Without ever seeking to draw the spotlight on himself, like his colleague Mr. Babonneau, the defense participated in the work of justice and truth with restraint and dignity. This is why I join millions of French people in saying thank you to all these ordinary men, Ms. Pelicot's lawyers, the security guard at the Carpentras supermarket and the investigators, for having made possible such a trial which is not that of men but only of rapists sitting in the dock.
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