After almost three months of debate. At the start of the 12th week of hearing. On the 50th day of this sprawling trial, a new phase is about to open this Monday, November 25. Last Wednesday, the president of the Vaucluse Departmental Criminal Court, Roger Arata, suspended the hearing to allow the public prosecutor’s office a few days to complete its requisitions. It is therefore this Monday that the two attorneys general Laure Chabaud and Jean-François Mayet will speak to request the conviction or acquittal of the 51 accused in the Mazan rape trial.
The prosecution’s representatives have three days before them to prove the guilt of the accused, reviewing an investigation lasting almost three years and months of very intense hearings.
From what we know, the attorneys general should begin with an overall presentation of the case from which the first required sentence would arise, that of the main accused and conductor of this entire affair, Dominique Pelicot. They should then state, according to the particular cases examined, the penalties required against each accused, passing the floor regularly. The question of consent will of course be at the center of everything, the debates having proven on numerous occasions that the victim Gisèle Pelicot was never able to give her informed consent. That of intention as well, most of the accused having expressed that they did not have it at the time of committing their acts.
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