“After eight weeks in the swamp, our notebooks are full of mud”

That's a lot of 50 defendants in a small courtroom. This Tuesday, November 19, the last day of the debates before the pleadings and the indictment, no more dispensations, everyone has been reconvened. Whites, a majority of whites, North Africans, three blacks. Tall ones, lean ones, medium ones, puny ones, potbellied ones, many potbellied ones, a few obese ones. Bald spots, lots of bald spots. Ponytails, very present the ponytail, sickly or luxuriant. Some well-groomed beards, some not. Shaved heads, white hair, graying ones, oiled ones, dyed black, ones with colored puffs. Piercings, tattoos. Two pairs of crutches, one pair of sneakers. And on the stand, one last accused.

Mechanically, we noted: Philippe L., 62 years old. Posted the ad “looking for naughty woman” on Coco.fr. Was contacted by Dominique Pelicot. Traveled to Mazan (Vaucluse) on June 7, 2018. We listened to the fiftieth answer to the same fiftieth question from the president. “Do you admit to the rape of which you are accused? – No. – Was Gisèle Pelicot able to give you her consent? ? – Non. » The final explanations of the last accused were recorded. “It seemed weird to me, and then I didn’t look any further. ” ” He [Dominique Pelicot] Told me to do this, he told me to do that, I did it. » And also: “I lost the connection with my brain. » And finally: “I apologize for having involuntarily participated in the suffering of M^me Pelicot. » It was over, the Mazan rape trial was emerging from the tunnel of interrogations into which it had entered two months earlier.

Usually, this is the time when you want to empty your notebooks. To tell the forgotten scene. The unexpected witness, the laughter, the sparkling dialogue, the joyful moment, the escape. To share the memory of a mother's emotion, the fantasy of a response, the light of a look. In short, of all these things seen which are the richness of a long trial.

In our notebooks filled with the Mazan rape hearings, there are: “cock in mouth”, “ass eating”, “Jacques fingering”, “magnificent up close and behind”, “well filled”, “it goes in by itself”, “well searched and well fucked”, “pounded on the back 2”, « 3^e garden », “squirts on ass”the titles of the videos recorded by Dominique Pelicot, which the president, Roger Arata, ended up stopping pronouncing when launching their broadcast. What do we do with that?

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