“He has no barrier, no limit, not even that of family ties” – Libération

On the first day of their indictment of the Mazan rape trial, the attorneys general requested twenty years of criminal imprisonment against the husband of Gisèle Pelicot, and seventeen years against her disciple Jean-Pierre M.. Defense lawyers denounce the influence of “public opinion”.

The banner was hung overnight on the ramparts facing the Avignon judicial court: “Twenty years for each.” A direct challenge to the Vaucluse departmental criminal court, presented in around ten collages by the feminist collective Les Amazones d'Avignon. Coincidentally, it was on the occasion of the international day against violence against women that the public prosecutor began its requisitions targeting the 51 accused in the Mazan rape trial. Twenty years of criminal imprisonment is the maximum sentence incurred for rape. This is what was requested this Monday against Dominique Pelicot, accused of having for years raped and had his sedated wife, Gisèle Pelicot, raped by these strangers. “Twenty years is both a lot, because it is twenty years of a life, whatever its age. But it is also too little considering the seriousness of the acts which were committed and repeated. appointed the deputy prosecutor