A At the end of three and a half months of hearings, Dominique Pelicot was sentenced, Thursday, December 19, by the Vaucluse criminal court, to the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, following the prosecution’s requisitions, for aggravated rape of his ex-wife, Gisèle Pelicot. The fifty co-defendants, in this resounding case, were all also sentenced to sentences ranging from three years in prison, two of which were suspended, up to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment – sentences, however, lower than the requisitions.
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This highly anticipated verdict is the high point of a trial “out of the norm”, who has started on September 2. The qualifier, used in particular in his indictment by the prosecutor, Jean-François Mayet, is not usurped. Exceptional, the file and then the trial known as “the rapes of Mazan” (Vaucluse) were unusual in several respects. By the seriality of the facts exposed – nearly 200 aggravated rapes, which took place from 2011 to 2020. By the quantity of material evidence noted by investigators – some 20,000 photos and videos of Gisèle Pelicot archived by her husband. But also by the number of co-defendants tried alongside the latter – fifty. Without forgetting the perverse personality of Dominique Pelicot, 72 years old, tried for triple aggravated rape (by spouse, in a meeting and under chemical submission) committed on his ex-wife, after fifty years of living together.
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