sexual violence – Dominique Pélicot was not present on Tuesday for medical reasons while he was due to explain the rapes committed between 2011 and 2020 on Gisèle Pélicot
The Mazan rape trial will be able to resume its course this Wednesday. Absent on Tuesday for medical reasons, Dominique Pélicot will indeed be back.
“We have a medical certificate issued today” specifying that there is no “contraindication to everyday gestures and transfers” between the penitentiary center where he is detained and the Avignon courthouse, declared late Tuesday afternoon the president of the court Roger Arata. Faced with the medical concerns of Dominique Pélicot, who suffers from intestinal pain, the president of the court had ordered a forensic medical examination that very morning.
“Mr. Pélicot did not shirk,” according to his lawyer.
On Monday morning, Dominique Pélicot, 71, appeared very diminished when he entered his box, helped by his cane and leaning against the window. He had not returned on Tuesday morning, prompting his lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, to clarify that this was not a maneuver on his part: “Let’s be very clear, Mr. Pélicot did not shirk. Mr. Pélicot will not shirk. Mr. Pélicot will be there, he will answer all questions.”
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