Dominique Pelicot “has the necessary perspective to say to himself that what he did is filthy”, says his lawyer

Two days before the resumption of the hearings, Monday November 4, before the Vaucluse criminal court, the lawyer of Dominique Pelicot, accused of having his sleeping and drugged wife, Gisèle Pelicot, raped by more than fifty men, expressed on BFMTV this Saturday.

The council first returned to the way in which this man “recruited” those to whom he would later deliver his wife. “It happened through the Coco site”an online discussion site implicated in numerous cases in France. “He placed an ad with a nickname. Once the announcement was made, an exchange took place and an appointment was made.the explicable of Béatrice Zavarro.

“Dark side”

“Dominique Pelicot is a man you might normally meet. There is nothing exceptional about it. Except he has a divisive personality. A side that everyone knows, appreciates and rubs shoulders with. And a darker side, that no one knows”she added. “Dominique Pelicot explains that the traumas suffered in childhood may have contributed to the creation of his adult personality”explained Béatrice Zavarro, in reference to the sentence pronounced by her client before the judges: “I’m a pervert. We are not born that way, we become that way.”

“We must remember that this is a man who, at the age of nine, was the victim of rape in a hospital facility where he underwent head surgery. This is a man who we are going to want to involve in a gang rape on a construction site when he is 14 years old. And he is an involuntary witness to scenes of sexual violence between his father and his mother.added Maître Zavarro.

“He knows that what he did is unforgivable”

Returning to her first contact with Dominique Pelicot, Béatrice Zavarro paints the portrait of a man “very spontaneous, very direct and transparent”. “I had a very clear exchange with him. Immediately I met him, immediately he told me the reasons why he was incarcerated”she adds.

“Dominique Pelicot today has the necessary perspective to say to himself that what he did was filthy. From the start, from the hearings, he is a man who regrets and who knows that what he did is unforgivable”concluded the Marseille lawyer.