Dominique Pelicot was sentenced this Thursday, December 19 to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot. Their son David said he was “satisfied” with this conviction this Friday on BFMTV.
David Pelicot, eldest son of Gisèle Pelicot, declared that the couple’s three children, including himself, constitute the “forgotten” people in the Mazan rape trial on BFMTV, this Friday, December 20, the day after his father’s conviction Dominique Pelicot at 20 years in prison with a two-thirds security sentence for aggravated rape.
“This Mazan trial (…) is not only that of Gisèle Pelicot, but also that of a family which was completely destroyed. Somehow, we children felt forgotten,” he said. -he lamented.
“We were a little less considered. (…) My sister Caroline Darian was the most forgotten and the sacrificed in this trial,” he said in particular.
Caroline Darian is convinced of having been drugged and raped by her father, Dominique, like her mother Gisèle, which her father denies, while naked photos and videos of her were found on Dominique Pelicot’s computer.
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“Satisfied” and “disappointed”
David Pelicot also said he was “satisfied” with the sentence to which his father Dominique was sentenced. “He got the maximum, that is to say 20 years of imprisonment, now he must pay the bill for the atrocities he committed on our mother,” said the son on BFMTV.
“I am a little more disappointed with what the other defendants got,” he said.
All of Dominique Pelicot’s 50 co-defendants were found guilty and sentenced to sentences ranging from three years to fifteen years in prison, i.e. sentences lower than the requisitions.
“My father no longer exists”
“This trial is a testament for future generations,” David Pelicot now wants to believe. “The verdict is an immense message of hope for victims of violence and sexual abuse, but it must also be a compass or a guide for future generations and for the education of our children and in particular our sons” , he maintains.
During the trial, David Pelicot declared that “since November 2, 2020, (his) family life has been destroyed”, in reference to the day when his mother, Gisèle, telephoned him to reveal the actions of Dominique Pelicot.
“My father no longer exists, I had to mourn his loss. My whole childhood has disappeared, it has been erased,” he proclaimed.
An “appeal” launched to Macron
“I appeal to Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister (François Bayrou Editor’s note) so that they continue the fight started upstream (by former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal)” on chemical submission, also supported David Pelicot, believing that a “battle” had been won, “but not the war”.
“We had a lot of questions to which we did not have an answer, both to the actions that (Dominique Pelicot) had on my sister, but also on my son,” declared David Pelicot, recalling that his son filed a complaint for touching his grandfather.
The trial, extraordinary in its duration, in the number of accused and in the horror of the alleged facts, has become one of the symbols of violence against women, with Gisèle Pelicot embodying a new feminist icon.
