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Frenchman Shocks Court With Rape Confession In High-Profile Mass Trial

byAgency Report
September 17, 2024
in Metro/Crime, News
Reading Time: 2 mins read
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Gisele Pelicot (R), next to her lawyer Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau (2-R) reacts at the Avignon courthouse during the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France, in Avignon, on September 16, 2024. - (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP)

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“I am a rapist,” a 71-year-old Frenchman accused of drugging his wife so he and scores of strangers could assault her told a court Tuesday, returning to the dock after being ill for around a week.

 

Dominique Pelicot used a cane as he slowly entered the courtroom in the southern city of Avignon, before sitting on a blue armchair to give him enough comfort to take part in the hearings.

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“I am a rapist, like the others in this room,” Pelicot said, referring to the 50 other defendants in the mass trial — men he allegedly recruited online to rape his then-wife Gisele Pelicot.

“They all knew” that he was inviting them to rape her, he said.

But he added: “She did not deserve this.”

Dominique Pelicot has been accused of administering anti-anxiety drugs to Gisele for almost a decade, from 2011 to 2020.

While she was unconscious, he would rape her and recruiting dozens of other men he met online to do the same.

Dominique Pelicot has admitted the charges, but Tuesday is the first time he has spoken at any length since the trial began on September 2.

The court may also hear more from Gisele Pelicot, who was present in the courtroom alongside Dominique’s brother Joel.

Beatrice Zavarro, the defendant’s lawyer, told AFP on Monday that he was suffering from “a clot in the bladder” and the beginning of a kidney infection.

But a medical exam ordered by the presiding judge found that he was in a fit state to appear in court, avoiding a delay of weeks or even months to the hearings.

Adjustments would be made to the “sequencing of the hearings” and Dominique Pelicot would get “regular rest”, Zavarro said, adding that the health complaints were not an attempt by her client to escape justice.

Dominique Pelicot’s testimony will be decisive for the 50 other men aged 26 to 74 on trial, four of whose cases are set to be heard in the coming days.

Some of the accused have admitted that he told them he was drugging his then-wife, while others claim they believed they were participating in a swinger couple’s fantasy.

The case has prompted outrage across France, with thousands demonstrating in cities at the weekend to demand an end to rape and support Gisele Pelicot.

She requested that the trial be open to the public to raise awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse.

“Thanks to you I have the strength to see this fight through to the end,” Gisele told demonstrators Monday.

AFP

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