“All the co-defendants could escape the situation, all decided to stay” – Libération

With sentences ranging from four to twenty years, almost all of the requisitions were issued by the public prosecutor on Tuesday, November 26. The prosecution had compared them the day before with the tendency of the 50 co-defendants, throughout the trial, to minimize their responsibility, even to deny the rapes.

Their voices sometimes break during this long litany. In two days, the public prosecutor, exceptionally two-headed (Jean-François Mayet and Laure Chabaud), carried out almost all of its requisitions against the 51 accused in the Mazan rape trial. The maximum sentence of 20 years of criminal imprisonment was only requested, Monday, against Dominique Pelicot, “conductor” of these rapes under chemical submission inflicted over nine years on his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot . A «ceiling the distant», Who “by rebound effect will limit the possible staggering of the other sentences of the accused”, the vice-prosecutor noted on Monday. Case within the case, seventeen years in prison were requested for Jean-Pierre M., the only accused not to have raped Gisèle Pelicot, but his own wife, by reproducing Dominique's modus operandi. Pelicot.

For the 45 other defendants whose cases have been examined, the public prosecutor is also asking the Vaucluse Departmental Criminal Court to find them guilty. Four-year sentences (for the only