The lawyer for the main accused delivered a very difficult argument. For Béatrice Zavarro, it was trauma that led Dominique Pelicot into the box. Sentences of 4 to 18 years were requested against his co-defendants.
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By Joëlle MeskensPublished on 11/27/2024 at 6:19 p.m.
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A 55 years old was the biggest challenge of his career. Plead for the man whose crimes have gone around the world since the opening, at the beginning of September, of the Mazan rape trial. “In spite of myself, I became the devil’s advocate,” lamented Ms. Béatrice Zavarro, describing her “extreme solitude” during her plea this Wednesday before the Avignon criminal court. But agreeing to defend Dominique Pelicot, the man who for ten years drugged his wife to deliver her to the abuse of dozens of other men, was for her a matter of oath. The one she lent in 1996 as a lawyer and which has since enjoined her to always shed light on the humanity in the men being judged.
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