51 men are on trial for chemical rape in the Mazan trial. During her last intervention, Gisèle Pelicot asked that society “change its outlook on rape”.
“It’s time we change the way we look at rape,” asked Gisèle Pelicot on Tuesday, during her last intervention at the Mazan trial, which for her is the one “cowardice” and a “macho and patriarchal society”.
“For me, this trial will be the trial of cowardice” repeated the septuagenarian three times, facing her now ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, head down in the accused box.
“It is high time that the macho and patriarchal society, which trivializes rape, changes, it is time that we change the way we look at rape,” then followed Gisèle Pelicot, delivered for a decade by her husband to dozens of strangers whom he recruited on the internet, after he drugged her.
“Since the start of this trial, I have heard a lot of things, it was inaudible…”she indicated, recognizing that the succession of the 51 accused at the bar since the beginning of September, ended Tuesday morning by Philippe L., 62 years old, generated “a fatigue that is felt”.
“I saw individuals taking the stand who deny rape,” for the most part, and “I have a lot of trouble facing this banality. I want to say to these men: at what moment when you enter this room did Madame Pelicot give you consent? At what moment, faced with this inert body, do you become conscious When are you not going to report him to the police?”
“I heard: ‘I was remote-controlled’, I heard ‘I drank a glass of water, I was drugged’. But when did they not hit?”
Gisèle Pelicot also refuted the fact that she could, during the 50 years of her life with her ex-husband, have been “under the influence”. “Do you think I would have stayed for 50 years with someone who manipulated me? (…) Absolutely nothing caught my attention!”
Gisèle Pelicot trial of mazan rape of mazan France
