At the trial of rapes of Mazanthe last days of interrogation of the accused are awaited. During these three months of hearings, men, sometimes presented as good husbands and good fathers, responded to accusations of having raped a sleeping woman and being drugged by her husband.
They all went to the Coco website, known to have been the hub of illicit practices. Child pornography images were also found among five defendants. Six were convicted of domestic violence.
What emerges a lot from these weeks of hearing is also that almost half had deprived childhoods and one in four say they have been victims of sexual violence.
However, this does not mean that there is a typical rapist profile. This was hammered out by the expert on November 14, recalls Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer, Maître Babonneau : they are wonderful colleagues, good-hearted friends, many are fathers of families.
“It allows us to move away from this typology by imagining thathe rapist is someone who by nature is desocialized, that no one likes, he explains. I think that almost all of the accused had people who came to testify on their behalf. What this trial reveals is that you can have all that and still have committed acts.”
These defendants all present normal personalities in the psychiatric sense. This trial is therefore not that of a pervert, of a predator, but indeed of a man of frightening banality.
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