David, one of the three sons of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicotstated this Monday that the trial being held in France for the rapes that his mother suffered for decades, while being drugged by his father, is that of “an entire family destroyed” and has asked his father to tell the whole truth about what he did to his sister already his son.
«For me it is the trial of an entire broken family. “It is very complicated to explain to your children that they will never see their grandfather again,” said the Pelicots’ eldest son, 50, before the Avignon criminal court, in the south of France, according to AFP.
The case of Dominique Pelicot71 years old, and others 50 co-defendantsaged between 26 and 74, generated a wave of indignation in France since it opened on September 2. This Monday, as the trial nears its end, the Pelicot children testified.
The accused admitted having broken to his now ex-wife Gisèle and having recruited dozens of men on the internet to abuse his wife between 2011 and 2020, meticulously documenting the rapes with thousands of images that investigators found on hard drives.
«My family wants to fight and will continue to do so, and above all we hope that in the future we can erase from our minds to the man on my left,” he declared, referring to his father, Dominique Pelicot, sitting in the dock. Throughout his testimony, he has referred to him as “that man.”
«What I hope from this trial is that the decisions let them take at the height of our suffering. Than the men, these men behind my back [los coacusados]this man on the bench [su padre]be punished for the horrors and atrocities they committed against my mother,” added David Pelicot.
Then he addressed his father directly: «If you still have some humanity left, do you hear me? [Me gustaría que] you would say the truth about what you did to my sisterwho suffers every day and will suffer for the rest of his life, because I believe that you will never tell the truth.
«And also about my son“David insisted, referring to the meetings between Dominique Pelicot and one of his grandchildren, whom he had supposedly asked to “play doctor.” His father has clarified that he had not done “anything” to them.
The daughter of the Pelicots, the “great forgotten”
Caroline Darianalso the daughter of the Pelicots and who published the book “Et j’ai cessé de t’appeler papa” (“And I stopped calling you dad”), is convinced that her “father”, as she calls him now, also attacked her. . I am the “great forgotten one” of this trial, she stated this Monday.
«Gisèle was raped under chemical submission, but the only difference between her and me is the lack of evidence as far as I’m concerned. For me, it is an absolute tragedy,” Caroline told the court.
According to the investigation, they found photos of her and two daughters-in-law by Dominique Pelicot on a computer, in some cases, when the women were naked.
«I am very grateful that my mother is still alive. But I still don’t understand why he did it,” he stated. Florianthe youngest of the three brothers, about the acts committed by his father.
The high-profile trial has become a symbol of the use of drugs to commit sexual assaults, a practice known as chemical submissionand relaunched the debate on the question of consent in France.
Some of the defendants claim that they were unaware that Dominique Pelicot administered sleeping medications to his wife and claim that they thought they were a debauched couple, something the victim denied in her first statement in court.
The main defendant reiterated that the 50 men on trial – one of them in absentia – knew that his wife I was high on strong anxiolytics.. “And they cannot say otherwise,” said the retiree.
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