“I should never have done this, I’m going to die like a dog”. With this phrase and through tears, Dominique Pelicot, the man who drugged his wife for 10 years to abuse her without her consent and so that other men could also rape her, finished his statement this Wednesday before the Criminal Court of Avignon.
Mazan’s monster has addressed his ex-wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and his daughter, Caroline Darian, to reiterate his sorry for all the pain causedalthough he admits that “they will not be enough.” “It’s part of what I keep deep inside me,” said Dominique, referring to Gisèle, adding that “the only hope” he has left is that his daughter “can have proof” that, contrary to what that she believes, “he did not drug her and rape her,” as he did with her mother.
And Darian, who also cried during this last judicial statement by her father, is convinced that Dominique Pelicot He also drugged her to abuse her.since among the files seized by the French police there were photographs in which she appeared naked and apparently asleep.
He admits to being a “sex addict”
In this sense, Pelicot – the main defendant in this trial in which he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison – has assumed that He was a “sex addict” and he will die alone because, apart from his lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, no one supports him. Furthermore, he added that he was not aware of the extent to which he had harmed his wife and children with his actions.
At the end of his statement, Zavarro indicated that he would have liked that your client had spoken before as he did this Wednesday, but in any case he hoped that what he had said would be heard. “If you understand it,” the lawyer stressed, “perfect. If you believe it, even better. If not, it doesn’t matter. But, in any case, it is the truth of Dominique Pelicot,” the lawyer concluded.
Next to him, there is 50 other defendants in this macro-trial that began on September 2 and is now facing its final stretch. In this sense, in addition to Dominique Pelicot’s latest statement, the argument of the private prosecution, that is, of Gisèle’s lawyers, is also scheduled for this Wednesday.
The process will resume next Monday, with the Prosecutor’s request for penalties, which will last until Wednesday. Then it will be the turn of the defense of the accused, who will have the last word before The sentence will be handed down on December 20.