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The requisitions began this Monday, November 25 as part of the Mazan rape trial. “The challenge is to fundamentally change the relationships between men and women,” said the public prosecutor at the start of his indictment and to request 20 years in prison against Dominique Pelicot, the maximum sentence in rape cases.
This Monday, November 25, 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. “Despicable actions”, commented the prosecution.
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“20 years is both a lot because it is 20 years of a life, whatever its age, it is not nothing. But it is at the same time too little. Too little considering the seriousness of the acts which were committed and repeated”, insisted Laure Chabaud, second representative of the public prosecutor to speak this Monday morning before the criminal court of Vaucluse, in Avignon.
Facts of “unimaginable gravity”
“This trial shakes up our society in our relationship with others, in the most intimate relationships between human beings. To make our needs, our emotions, our desires understood and above all to take into account those of the other,” said declared a little earlier Jean-François Mayet, the first of the two representatives of the prosecution to speak.
He considered that the issue at stake in this trial “on facts of unimaginable gravity” which “shake up our society” was “not a conviction or an acquittal”, warning that the requisitions “will be taken in the necessary individualization of the sentence” of the 51 accused, these men between 26 and 74 years old, most of whom are being prosecuted for aggravated rape and face up to 20 years of criminal imprisonment.
“You were right ma’am.”
“The facts and the personality of each accused were taken into account even in our requisitions,” he added, while specifying that “justice needs calm and peaceful debates. This extraordinary trial leads to requisitions “out of the norm.”
Jean-François Mayet declared that the heart of this trial was that of “male domination over women”, a subject “far from being unknown to everyone”. He thus drew a parallel with that of the Aix-en-Provence rapes of 1978, where lawyer Gisèle Halimi had rape recognized as a crime. He also praised the “courage” and “dignity” of Gisèle Pelicot, the main victim of these approximately 200 repeated rapes, half of which attributed to her ex-husband, giving her credit for having decided to lift the closed doors of the hearings. and allowing the distribution of some of the approximately 20,000 photos and videos taken without his knowledge by Dominique Pelicot.
“You were right ma'am: the past weeks have shown the importance of these broadcasts, so that the shame changes sides,” he said, taking up the argument put forward several times by Gisèle Pelicot.
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