How, in France, in 2024, can a woman still suffer what Gisèle Pelicot suffered for at least 10 years? How can we find 50 individuals in France, but in reality 70 (Editor's note: several have never been identified and will therefore never be judged), men
to come and sexually assault this body, questioned Me Antoine Camus, one of the two lawyers of Gisèle Pelicot, drugged and raped for a decade by her husband and dozens of men he recruited on the internet.
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Opening the second phase of this trial, that of the pleadings, Me Camus, recalled the videos of the facts, meticulously recorded, captioned and stored by Dominique Pelicot, where Ms. Pelicot was at this point inert that we would think she was dead
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By this almost political gesture of renouncing the closed session
on September 2, at the opening of this extraordinary trial before the Vaucluse criminal court, Ms. Pelicot invited all of society to ask questions, to become aware, to change mentalities, for a future that would finally break with a violence that we would like from another age
he said.
“Banality of evil”
Gisèle Pelicot would have every reason in the world to be full of hatred today, to pit men and women against each other and to castigate male sexuality in general.
continued the lawyer: but Gisèle Pelicot chose to transform this mud into noble material and to go beyond the darkness of her story to find meaning in it: she is counting on the court to help her.
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For an hour, without hesitation, the lawyer asked that justice and truth
be returned for this family, this woman, her daughter and her two sons, and her grandchildren, buried for 4 years under rubble
after the explosion
of the revelation of the facts, in the fall of 2020.
But he did not dwell on Dominique Pelicot, this split personality
with its face A
of good husband, grandfather, friend, neighbor
and its face B
when, mainly at night, he would drug his wife with anxiolytics so that he could then dispose of her and hand her over to strangers.
In fact, the main accused recognizing his role as conductor
of the approximately 200 rapes recorded over a decade against his ex-wife, at their marital home in Mazan (Vaucluse), half of which by himself, it seems difficult to imagine that he would escape the maximum sentence provided for, of 20 years of imprisonment. criminal imprisonment.
Me Camus therefore focused on the 50 co-defendants. And everyone had free will
he insisted: Everyone at their own level contributed to this monstrosity and allowed the ordeal of a woman to continue.
, It’s the banality of Hannah Arendt’s evil.
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All have chosen to resign from thought to make their impulses prevail
continued the lawyer, asking that the court make decisions clear
et farms
particularly on the question surrounding the intentionality of the rape, an argument put forward by almost all of the co-defendants who recognize the materiality of the facts but not the intention to violate
.
Me Camus in any case brushed aside the possibility of any alteration in the discernment of the accused, in response to the ten defense lawyers who, on Wednesday morning, filed this subsidiary request to the court concerning 33 of the 50 co-defendants.
“Alone like a dog!” »
Rape is rape
he repeated, facing defense lawyers who will undoubtedly try to explain that their clients were manipulated
by Dominique Pelicot and that they only thought they were participating in a scenario of a libertine couple.
For Me Camus, this trial will also have shed light on the question of chemical submission, this diabolical modus operandi
Who is nothing other than the modus operandi of the perfect crime: Gisèle Pelicot did not wake up with a bruised face or next to a stranger. She woke up next to a man who loved her, didn't beat her, who happily made a doctor's appointment for her.
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He finally castigated the courtroom abuse
inflicted by certain defense lawyers on Gisèle Pelicot, sometimes going so far as to imply that she could have been complicit and consenting.
Before the start of this pleading, Dominique Pelicot tried again to apologize to his family on Wednesday morning, arousing the anger of his daughter Caroline: You will end up alone, like a dog!
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