The requisitions fall against the 50 accused and Dominique Pelicot, in the Mazan rape case. After 2 and a half months of this sprawling trial, 14 years in prison were requested against Karim S., a 40-year-old computer scientist, who had denied the facts during the examination of his case. The prosecution also required 6 years of socio-judicial monitoring with 3 years incurred if non-compliance.
Karim S. was also appearing for possession of child pornography images and the attorney general asked that he also be found guilty of these facts.
“She just took her sleeping pill“, writes Dominique Pelicot about his wife, sending photos of her naked and sleeping. “Too stupid to see that I'm filming it“, he sneers. On the other end of the line, Karim S., an IT expert for a bank, bides his time and relishes: “Is the sleeping pill working? Let me know in advance because I have a twenty minute drive“. Single without children, clean record, Karim S. will say during his hearings that he believed in a “couple scenario“, a “jgot a little unhealthy“.
Subsequently, he accepted Dominique Pelicot's request to install a camera in his bathroom, without it ever happening. He also admitted to having penetrated his former partner while she was sleeping and is being prosecuted for possession of child pornography images, which he denied at the hearing as the intention to rape Gisèle Pelicot.
“I did not go to this person's house with the aim of committing a crime and I was absolutely unaware that the lady did not consent.“, he assured. “I think you liked it?“, the main accused had asked him after the fact.”Yes too“, replied Karim S., who finally declined, claiming food poisoning.
Since September 2, 2024, 50 men and the main accused Dominique Pelicot have been tried by the Vaucluse Departmental Criminal Court. All are accused of rape or sexual assault on Gisèle Pelicot, acts orchestrated by her ex-husband who recruited on the Coco.gg site, closed since June 2024. Around twenty other rapists are counted but they have never were identified and therefore did not answer for their actions.
Gisèle Pelicot, symbol of the fight against sexual violence
With courage and dignity, the victim chose to show her face, that the abuse she suffered be exposed, that nothing be spared from public opinion. “Shame must change sides“, she implored at the start of the trial, taking on this very heavy role as a symbol of the fight against sexual violence.
During the hearings, Gisèle Pelicot defined herself as a woman.destroyed“, more “determined to change society“. Since the opening of the trial, several demonstrations against “rape culture” were held throughout France.
There are 50 of them, they are a bit of everyone
They are all accused of rape. They are between 26 and 73 years old. They have brothers and sisters, neighbors, partners, children. They are a mason, a gardener, a journalist, a precarious worker, a nurse, a soldier, an engineer, a prison guard, a retiree, a firefighter, a municipal councilor… They have no mental pathology and, for the most part, no criminal record. Their lives are both singular and banal.
Accused by accused, find the portraits of the 50 accused of the Mazan rapes.
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