Small in size, discreet in appearance, Béatrice Zavarro carries on her shoulders the immense burden of defending Dominique Pelicot, one of the worst sex criminals of recent decades. But, “alone in front of the world”, the lawyer remains calm. Passed in the space of twelve weeks from the shadows to the light, she opened the defense pleadings at the trial of the “Mazan rapes”, Wednesday afternoon, trying to recall the “humanity” of ” the other Dominique”. “From the moment I defend a man who I am told is a liar, a manipulator, that he has fooled everyone, I must try to reestablish the truth,” Mr. Zavarro justified himself to AFP: “my mission is that we manage to understand, even if we hate him”, how he was able to carry out “these detestable facts”. “She is on a tightrope. Her position is far from obvious but she holds it with great finesse. Do not reduce ‘the monster’ to its crimes, make us forget side B to recall side A, the two coexisting in this split personality”, recognized Antoine Camus, one of the lawyers for the civil parties. This term “monster”, the 55-year-old Marseillaise with round and red glasses has always refuted it, considering herself only as “the lawyer of someone who has committed something monstrous”. And to recall that in “France, in a rule of law, everyone has the right to be defended”.
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