Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, told the BBC that her father deserved to “die in prison”, after his sentence to 20 years in prison for drugging his wife to rape her and hand her over to dozens of strangers in the south of France.
“He should die in prison, he is a dangerous man,” she said during this interview which will be broadcast Monday evening on BBC Two, the first since the end of the historic Mazan trial in Avignon on December 19, 2024. .
Caroline Darian, 46, reiterated her belief that she too had been a victim of her father, after seeing photos of her unconscious, lying on a bed in underwear she did not recognize.
“I am convinced that I was drugged to be raped […]but I have no proof. [Dominique Pelicot] always denied it, but he gave different versions each time,” she regretted.
Today, she describes her father as “one of the worst sexual predators of the last 20 or 30 years” and has written a book detailing her family’s trauma, called And I stopped calling you dad.
During the Mazan trial, which had an impact around the world, 51 men were found guilty and sentenced for having raped Gisèle Pelicot, who became a feminist heroine for having notably refused to go behind closed doors.
According to Caroline Darian, the latter had difficulty accepting the idea that her ex-husband could also have assaulted her daughter: “For a mother, it’s difficult to integrate all of that in one go.”
On January 21, France 2 will broadcast the documentary Chemical submission: so that shame changes sidesnarrated by Caroline Darian, who has become a leading figure in the fight against this scourge.
During the trial, of which she said she was “the great forgotten one”, she had a violent face-to-face with her “progenitor”, ordered to “tell the truth” about her.
“You will die a lie!” Alone, alone in the lie, Dominique Pelicot!”, she said after he once again denied it.
The latter accepted his sanction and will not appeal, unlike 17 of the other convicted defendants.
“When I look back, I don’t really remember the father I thought he was. I see the sex criminal directly,” Caroline Darian told the BBC.
“I think there are two Dominiques coexisting in him, and he decided to choose the dark side. I don’t know if he’s a monster, but he knew exactly what he was doing. He is not sick,” added his daughter.
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