“It’s not easy to be Dominique Pélicot’s son today.” Since September 2, 2024, the whole world has followed with fear the twists and turns of the Mazan rape trial, which is being held before the Vaucluse departmental criminal court, in Avignon. And if the wave of support for Gisèle Pélicot has taken on a global scale, we sometimes forget that there is not just one victim in this affair: it is an entire family which has been broken, demolished, by the actions of Dominique Pélicot and his fifty co-accused. And precisely, for the first time since the opening of the trial, the couple’s two sons agreed to testify on the stand. Unlike their sister, Caroline Darian, David and Florian Pélicot had not yet spoken. This Monday, November 18, 2024, they decided to address the court, and their father, to tell the story of the real “tsunami” that swept through their family.
“When we know the atrocities that my mother experienced, it is obvious that we cannot forgive. You know, on November 2, 2020, I lost my father. On September 2, 2024, I found a monster,” declared David Pélicot, the eldest of the siblings, in reference to the two key dates in this affair: the one when the police told them the truth, and the one when The trial is open. Like his brother and sister, the fifty-year-old speaks of Dominique Pélicot as “this man”, to whom “nothing more [le] related”. For four years, they have emptied the house in which they grew up, and (…)
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