Dominique Pelicot’s final statement in the trial for the macro-rape of his wife: he praises Gisèle’s “courage” and apologizes to her family

Dominique Pelicot, the main defendant in the macro rape trial in France, asked his family to accept his “apologies”, and praised the “courage” of his ex-wife, Gisèle, whom he drugged for a decade to rape her along with strangers contacted on the internet.

“I would like to start by saluting the courage of my ex-wife,” the man declared before a court in Avignon, in the south of France. «I’m sorry for what I did, making you suffer [a mi familia] for four years [cuando salieron a la luz los hechos]”I apologize,” he continued, on the last day of his statements before the verdict, scheduled for Thursday, of this trial that has gone around the world.

[INFORMACIÓN EN DESARROLLO]