Dizzying, dizzying, exhausting day, Thursday, October 3, at the Avignon courthouse: no less than seven defendants were heard by the Vaucluse criminal court regarding the acts of rape with which they are accused. One or the other interrogation could usefully have been postponed by twenty-four hours, but a verdict must be rendered before Christmas, so we condense, we interrogate at full speed, and too bad if the historic trial sometimes has the air immediate appearances.
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In the court’s defense, the general denial enterprise is a little repetitive, the litany of “rape-without-intention-to-commit” continued on Thursday, and it is tempting to dismiss the umpteenth accused Who “didn’t know she was on drugs” or thought “that it was a sexual game and that she was going to wake up”. But this trial tells so many stories within the story and is packed with so many details that it would take longer to hear it all.
Where to start? By Jean T.’s curious amnesia? By the lamentations of Redouane E.? At least these two provided the court with justifications that it had not yet heard. The first, aged 52, remembers everything up to his entry into Gisèle Pelicot’s room; he remembers everything after waking up in his car in the nearby parking lot; what happened between the two, “I don’t remember at all”he swore, trying to convince that he himself had been ” drug “ by Dominique Pelicot.
Redouane E. also discarded, saying to himself ” victim “ by Dominique Pelicot, facing whom he would have had “the fear of [sa] vie ». “When I got to the room, I said to myself: did he kill his wife? Is he going to film? He’s going to implicate me in a murder? I was terrified! I found myself stuck, I said to myself: the slightest attempt to escape, I would die. So what I did [à Gisèle Pelicot]it was so as not to frustrate the gentleman, who seemed to me to be a dangerous psychopath. »
“Hate towards women”
“I watched the videos again this morning, I didn’t see you terrified at all”said Antoine Camus, lawyer for Gisèle Pelicot. “What must be understood, replied the 55-year-old accused, anticipating the unfavorable videos which will be viewed on Friday, This is because I am in the presence of a predator, so I must not show weakness so as not to encourage him to attack me. This makes interpreting the videos very complex. They tell me that I don’t look panicked, but I didn’t want to seem panicked! »
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