“It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t say anything”, this accused “who hears voices” opts for a lunar defense

In this trial, which has been in suspense for several weeks, the details of the case are heavy. As part of its seventh week of hearing before the Vaucluse criminal court, Mazan’s trial took a lunar turn this Wednesday, October 16, 2024 after hearing the statements of one of the 51 co-accused at the bar. This week, 7 of the 51 co-defendants are being heard before the court even though the psychological profiles of the latter were presented the day before in a room with “ relatively few audiences ».

Juliette Campion, journalist specializing in police and legal affairs for France Info, is present in the room today and transcribes the various exchanges on X (formerly Twitter) while Redouane A. is expected to take the stand. As a reminder, the accused is one of 50 men accused of aggravated rape against the person of Gisèle Pélicot, drugged without her knowledge by her husband, Dominique Pélicot, for almost 10 years. Aged 40, Redouane A., a father of four children, used a somewhat lunar defense against the assembly.

Who is Redouane A., one of the 51 co-defendants in the Mazan rape case?

This Wednesday, October 16, some of the seven accused of the week are finally questioned about the facts and it is with Redouane A. that the trial opens. You should know that a majority of the facts were filmed by the main accused whose images were revealed to the public of the trial in recent days and it is in a video in the file called “ Miloud» that the accused has been identified. Accused of domestic violence, theft, death threats, and other facts, Redouane A. has more than 19 entries in his criminal record between 2003 and 2019 and was already incarcerated at the time of the discovery of the rape case. Mazan.

If it has been confirmed that the forty-year-old went to the Pélicot home twice, he also tried to extort Dominique Pélicot in exchange for his silence and allegedly asked him to give him the drugs he used to put his wife to sleep. female. If psychiatric experts affirmed yesterday that the man in question possessed ” weak intellectual skills » and it seems “unable to conform to laws and social norms”however, he claims not to have known that he was participating in a rape: “If I had known it was rape, I would not have been filmed“, he declared this Wednesday, October 16.

Redouane A. tries to use psychiatric loopholes

While Redouane A. says he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2006, he has been interned in a psychiatric hospital several times in recent years. However, during the second opinion carried out in 2022 on the accused, it was highlighted that no alteration of discernment at the time of the facts was revealed, thus not confirming the diagnosis of schizophrenia. This does not mean that the forty-year-old did not try to use this defense against the psychiatric expert: “I wasn’t myself.”he allegedly declared to her as she recounted their interview:“then he pretends to sob, with sounds of lament, saying “I regret”»

He then allegedly stated regarding the facts:“It doesn’t matter that she didn’t say anything: he agreed» speaking of Dominique Pélicot. This is when he uses a lunar defense:“I had voices telling me: “go for it, go for it, it’s a good plan”, because I’ve been hearing voices since 2018”. It remains to be seen whether the psychiatric aspect will really be taken into account in Redouane A’s judgment.

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