After eleven weeks of hearings, the two attorneys general today delivered their first submissions. The prosecution began with the main accused, Dominique Pelicot. The requisitions could last until Wednesday.
It is “the keystone of this file» out of the ordinary. This Monday, November 25, the public prosecutor requested against Dominique Pelicot, detained since November 4, 2020, 20 years in prison for the “aggravated rapes” committed against his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot.
The prosecution added that it had retained three aggravating circumstances: the fact that these rapes were committed in a meeting, by a spouse, and, finally, under chemical submission. The attorneys general also mentioned offenses related to these rapes, namely the dissemination of sexual images of his daughter Caroline and his two daughters-in-law.
“All suffering cannot find a legal translation”
“Dominique Pelicot is accused of a considerable number of aggravated rapes, but also of related offenses, in particular against his daughter and his daughters-in-law”recalled General Counsel Laure Chabaud. “When Dominique Pelicot writes [aux internautes auxquels il envoie les photos de ses belles-filles et de sa fille NDLR] “I’m surrounded by good sluts”, Dominique Pelicot is not responding to an impulse. He had time to think about what he was doing.”underlined the general advocate. Before continuing: “this observation shows that Dominique Pelicot’s drift does not only affect his wife”.
Concerning the photos taken of his daughter Caroline, these are the only facts that Dominique Pelicot persists in denying. Faced with the absence of objective and material elements, no accusation of rape and chemical submission has been brought against Dominique Pelicot concerning her daughter. “We do not minimize our suffering, oh so legitimate, but all suffering cannot find a legal translation», declared Laure Chabaud, about the daughter of the Pelicot couple.
