Aged 22 at the time of his first visit, Charly A., who visited the couple six times in five years, assures that he did not respond to the requests of the septuagenarian, who had nevertheless provided him sleeping pills.
“Mr. Pelicot, was there only one evening in the year when Gisèle could hope that you would give her a break?” asks Mr. Stéphane Babonneau of the accused, this Friday, November 15 before the Vaucluse Criminal Court. “Unfortunately there wasn't enough.” the septuagenarian responds from his cubicle, back after medical examinations.
Two men busy over an inanimate body
The court has just viewed terrible images, filmed on December 7, 2018, where the accused and a young man, Charly A., then aged 24, are busy abusing Gisèle, inanimate, her husband holding her mouth opened to deliver it to his accomplice.
“It was my wife’s birthday.” confirms Dominique Pelicot, who brought young Charly to Mazan, near Carpentras, six times in 2016 and 2020. Analysis of dozens of videos seized showed that she was also raped on December 31, Christmas Eve, of Valentine's Day. With Charly A., Dominique Pelicot shot 47 videos, and took multiple photos.
The massive impact of pornography on teenagers
“Did you feel like you were in a pornographic movie?” an assessor asks the young man. He shakes his head in denial. Just before, Doctor Mathieu Lacambre, head of forensic psychiatry at Montpellier University Hospital, who examined him, insisted at length on the impact that pornography had on his sexuality. A consumption of pornography which began around 12 years old, and which ten years later had become addictive.
“AToday it is considered that one in two children who enter secondary school have already seen pornography. We are around 10, 11 years old. It is an entry into dysfunctional sexuality. The usual scenario is the plumber who comes to unclog the sink and the lady, who is according to the sites' keywords a “mature”, a “milf”, comes to make propositions to him. It's all very standardized, and young people consider it the norm.” specifies the psychiatrist.
A perverse contract
“Charly A. entered into sexuality being very stimulated by pornography. Logically when he was offered the sleeping princess, the Milf who was the object of these fantasies formatted by pornography, a 30-minute drive from his home , there he goes” deciphers the expert. “It’s what we call a perverse contract, when we transform the subject into an object.”
Charly A. was filmed around fifty times sexually penetrating the unconscious Gisèle Pelicot, but yet he denies having raped her. “For me, she was pretending to sleep,” he explains. The President: “Could she have chosen you as her sexual partner?” “No, but when I spoke with the gentleman, he told me that she agreed, consenting, asleep. I didn't want to hurt this woman, this family, because I have one too” replies the accused.
The plan to subject his mother to the same fate
The most disturbing thing is yet to come: the plan to subject the young man's mother to the same fate.
The President: “Who is going to come up with this idea?”
“It’s Mr. Pelicot who asks me if I want to do this again on someone I know, in my family or close to me, and I say, yes, my mother, like that.”
Faint traces found in his hair
“He takes things seriously?” “Yes.” “He’s giving you some pills?” “Yes, two or three.” “VAre you going to use them?” “Absolutely not, I'll throw them out the car window on the way home.” However, faint traces of anxiolytics were found in her mother's hair, even though she swears she never took them. “I never gave my mother medicine,” he assures.
Female plastic buttocks and black lace panties
During the search of her home, where he was living at the time, the police found a whole range of objects of a sexual nature. “Un erect male penis, a female plastic buttocks with two holes, a dildo, two sexual stimulators” lists a magistrate.
“Yes, I was looking for myself” he admits. The assessor: “Un black tights and black lace panties. Who does it belong to?” Silence. “Was that your mother’s?” He nods. “When you say, I’m looking for myself, is it in terms of sexual orientation?” “Yes.”
“That’s when it clicked for me”
Described as “solitaire, submissive, naive” by the experts, Charly A. suggests a form of control that Dominique Pelicot would have exercised over him. “He was reassuring, directive, enterprising”. The judge: “You said you take no pleasure in these scenes, so why go back to them?” “Because he's insistent.” According to him, it was when Dominique Pelicot coveted his mother that he cut ties. “It pissed me off, after a while I perhaps became aware. When he is too insistent towards my mother, that’s when it clicks.”
