Dominique Pélicot made his return to the Mazan rape trial. He denied taking intimate photos of his daughter and drugging and raping her.
On Tuesday, September 17, Dominique Pélicot participated in the trial again, after a week of absence. He faced his family and in particular his daughter. Intimate photos of the latter were found on his hard drive, in a folder named “Around my daughter, naked”. She appears naked and lying on the bed in a “quasi-foetal” position, reminiscent of her mother when she was drugged.
Although the accused had, earlier in the day, confessed to the facts he is accused of against his wife, who was drugged and raped without his knowledge, he assured that he had “never touched his daughter”, nor even taken her pictures, reports BFMTV. “No, it’s not me. That photo lying on the bed, it’s not me,” he insisted. He then claimed not to know who was behind it. However, he admitted to having made a photomontage of his wife and daughter.
Statements that shocked her daughter, who was present at the hearing: “You’re lying,” the author repeated twice. And I stopped calling you dad. He also addressed her directly: “Caroline, I never drugged you or raped you. It’s not possible to say that.” A new statement to which Caroline reportedly reacted with a simple shake of her head. The latter, convinced that she had been drugged by her father, or even sexually assaulted, had previously left the room briefly in the face of the harshness of the trial, “I’m going to puke right now,” she had said.
One of Dominique Pélicot’s answers leaves one perplexed
Her father did not give up: he refused to admit any guilt. “My daughter is like my grandchildren, they are jewels, we do not touch them. What should I do, say, cut off an arm?”, he replied, irritated by the numerous requests from the lawyers of the civil party on the incestuous nature of the images.
Another response from Dominique Pélicot, however, was intriguing. When asked about the fact that he had not captured images of his two sons, he retorted: “I am not attracted to men”, rather than denying once again having taken photos of his children. This persistent doubt is trying for the forty-year-old, as her lawyer explained: “There is no proof and that is the whole tragedy for her daughter”.