Published on December 15, 2024 at 1:45 p.m. / Modified on December 15, 2024 at 1:47 p.m.
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The collar is threadbare, the fabric patched, the seams patched up: Béatrice Zavarro was sworn in in 1996 and still wears the same dress, which does what it can after twenty-eight years of service. The Mazan rape trial ends, the trial of a lifetime for the lawyer – she prefers “lawyer” – of Dominique Pelicot, until then known for having assisted Christine Deviers-Joncour, sentenced in 2003 to 18 month in prison for concealment of misuse of company assets in the Elf affair. She could have come out in tatters. She finally seems in better condition than her dress.
“I have the feeling of having taken up the challenge,” she says, aware all the same that only miraculous leniency from the Vaucluse Criminal Court would allow her client to escape the 20 years of imprisonment required against him – the maximum incurred. The verdict is expected on December 19 or 20. His mandate was not to spare him this sentence, but to show his humanity and defend his version of the facts. “I held the hearing, I knew how to ward off certain blows, it was intense.” A marathon of just over a hundred days. “We had to keep up the pace.” Alone.
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