Forest of microphones and traffic jam this Monday, November 25 morning when leaving the courtroom. : it's the big day crowd at the Avignon courthouse to listen to the indictments of the two attorneys general at the Mazan rape trial. The public prosecutor requested the maximum sentence, i.e. 20 years of criminal imprisonment, against Dominique Pelicot for having, for a decade, drugged, raped and had his wife raped by dozens of men recruited on the Internet.
“20 years is a lot because it's 20 years of a life, whatever its age, it's not nothing. But it's both a lot and too little. Too little considering the seriousness of the acts which were committed and repeated”insisted Laure Chabaud, second representative of the public prosecutor's office to speak Monday morning before the Vaucluse criminal court, in Avignon. A one-hour indictment, without concessions against a man who committed “despicable actions”. The general counsel is also worried about the future of Dominique Pelicot “who expresses no empathy”she underlines and against whom she therefore requires this maximum sentence with the greatest conviction.
“Justified” requisitions according to Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer
Requisitions which do not surprise Dominique Pelicot's lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro. “It is justified in view of the seriousness, the heaviness of the facts with which he is accused, but nevertheless these remain shocking requisitions for a man who will be 72 years old in a few days. I simply hope that the court tries to see Dominique Pelicot in a slightly less aggressive manner than what the prosecution saw, or even trying to understand something other than the simple fact that he abused his sleeping wife by his care, in a voluntary, almost animal manner. I would like. that we try to see another personality of Dominique Pelicot than that”she explains.
Until Wednesday, the attorneys general will demand the sentences against the 50 men who are accused of having raped Gisèle Pelicot. They too risk up to twenty years in prison. The verdict is expected no later than December 20.
