Mazan rape trial: sentences of 10 to 13 years in prison required against 19 of the 50 co-defendants before the Vaucluse criminal court

At the Mazan rape trial, it is time for requisitions. Monday, November 25, the two attorneys general requested a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison against Dominique Pelicot, considering it necessary “that at the end of his sentence (the accused Editor's note) be subject to a re-examination with a view to a possible detention measure”.

Dominique Pelicot is accused of having, between July 2011 and October 2020, drugged, raped and had his ex-wife, Gisèle Pelicot, raped by around fifty men recruited on the Internet. They are being tried by the Vaucluse criminal court, at the Avignon court.

On the same day Monday, the general prosecutor's office requested sentences ranging from 10 to 13 years in prison against 19 of the co-defendants, tried for aggravated rape. “10 years in prison required for the majority of the accused is the average sentence for rape in France,” explains Marion Dubreuil for RMC, who has been following this trial closely since it began. She specifies that, in addition to the fact that none of the accused has obtained the victim's consent, their criminal record “when it relates to intra-family violence” is taken into account by the attorneys general.

This Tuesday, November 26, the 51st day of the trial, the prosecution resumed its inquests against the last 30 of Dominique Pelicot's 50 co-defendants.