“Women are not the property of men” : It is with this quote from Gisèle Halimi that this new day of the Mazan rape trial opens. This Monday, November 25, the twelfth week of hearing at the Vaucluse criminal court, the public prosecutor's requisitions begin. The courtroom is crowded, a sign that the stakes are high.
Gisèle Pelicot is present, seated alongside her guide from the France Victimes association. All the accused are also present with their lawyers. Their sentences will be individualized according to their possible criminal history and the number of times they have visited the Pelicot home. Four went six times, six went twice and the rest only once. One of the representatives of the public prosecutor, Jean-François Mayet, takes the floor in the preamble to underline the effectiveness of justice in this trial “ out of the norm ». « 59 volumes of judicial information containing thousands of reports processed in 31 months “, he insists.
The term extraordinary also applies to the extent of the facts and their seriousness obviously. “20,000 photos and videos were found revealing more than 200 facts about one and the same woman, still with an inert body”he describes. “I salute your courage and your dignity”he said to Gisèle Pelicot. On the subject of the closed session, he even agrees with him, he who initially wanted a trial without an audience for the ” protect “. “You were right Madam, the past weeks have shown the importance of broadcasting videos so that shame changes sides”he says.
“Dominique Pelicot’s perversion extends beyond his relationship with his wife”
The second general counsel Laure Chabaud returns to the genesis of the facts for many minutes. A way undoubtedly to bring back to life the horror of this affair. She evokes the man who is the keystone of the case, Dominique Pelicot, a man with “so complex personality” and of which “the voyeuristic deviance moves on his daughter and his daughters-in-law”. She also returns to the extraordinary nature of this file, of all the verbal and physical violence it contains. This Dominique Pelicot, who admitted to having acted without the consent of his wife “ to submit a rebellious woman and for which he therefore opts for chemical submission ».
It is therefore a question of a dangerous man who is prescribed Temesta and who inflicts the highest dose on his wife. “The vital prognosis can then be engaged”insists the general counsel. A victim in a state close to a coma who “ absolutely could not have voluntarily ingested these anxiolytics », she explains, thereby silencing those wishing to place an ounce of guilt or responsibility on Gisèle Pelicot. No, she could not have known what was happening to her privately or decode pseudo-signs.
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Maximum sentence of 20 years required
As for the ex-husband's motive, for Laure Chabaud, nothing very obvious emerged from the hearings: the question of control seems difficult to gauge. The scenario of revenge after Gisèle's infidelity is plausible. Finally, the only real certainty of the General Counsel: Dominique Pelicot is a “ pervert “. Egocentric and incapable of a healthy relationship with others, he can take responsibility for all the sordid facts but also declare his love and respect for his wife during the hearings. “However, he does not suffer from any pathology and his responsibility is therefore full and complete”declares Laure Chabaud.
She therefore believes that the future is bleak for the septuagenarian, whose criminal dangerousness was assessed as high. Therefore, it requires the maximum sentence for the alleged acts: 20 years. “ It is both a lot and too little in view of the facts committed and repeated », she concludes, staring fixedly at Dominique Pelicot.
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