. Dominique Pelicot “absolutely contests” new sexual assault accusation

. Dominique Pelicot “absolutely contests” new sexual assault accusation
Vaucluse. Dominique Pelicot “absolutely contests” new sexual assault accusation

“Domnique Pelicot absolutely contests this new accusation. » These words are those of Maître Béatrice Zavarro, Dominique Pelicot's lawyer. She who learned this Friday, January 24 of the existence of this complaint from her client whom she went to see at the penitentiary center where he is serving his sentence.

“He is absolutely stunned, even more so on a 12-year-old girl. He is waiting for the outlines of this complaint to see what it is, but he is in total disagreement. » Sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment by the departmental criminal court for having drugged, raped and had his wife – Gisèle Pelicot – raped by men he met on the internet, Dominique Pelicot is accused this time of having sexually assaulted a young girl aged 12 in 1995 in the region.

Ether like the other two cold cases

Posing as an electrician, according to the victim, now 42 years old, he tried to put her to sleep with Ether before fleeing when the young girl's mother arrived. It was by seeing the images of the latter during the trial of the “Mazan rapes” that this forty-year-old would have recognized her attacker, report our colleagues from M6 who revealed this affair. Dominique Pelicot, aged 72, is also indicted in two cold cases, also in the Paris region. For an attempted rape in 1999 which he admitted and for another case of attempted rape and murder in 1991, which he continues to deny. In both cases ether was used.

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