Dominique Pelicot, the main accused in the Mazan rape trial, was “found guilty” on Thursday, December 19, for having, for a decade, drugged his ex-wife with anxiolytics before raping her and handing her over to dozens of unknown people recruited on the internet. He is sentenced to 20 years in prison. No acquittal for all the other accused.
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“ Mr. Pelicot, you are found guilty of aggravated rape against the person of Gisèle Pelicot », declared the president of the criminal court of Vaucluse, Roger Arata. He was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. This prison sentence is associated with a security sentence of “two thirds”, specified the president of the Vaucluse criminal court, adding that at the end of the sentence, his situation “will be subject to a re-examination to judge of his safety.” He will also be registered in the national sex offender file.
Dominique Pelicot72, stood up and listened to the president attentively but without expressing any particular emotion. He faces 20 years of criminal imprisonment. He was also found guilty of recording and possessing images taken without their knowledge of his wife, daughter and daughters-in-law. The whole family is present in the room.
Monday, December 16, during his last speech, he prayed to his family “ to accept his apology ”, while welcoming the “ courage » from his ex-wife, Giselenow aged 72.
“ I have been given titles, I rather intend to make myself forgotten “, had warned the one who was described by several lawyers of the co-defendants as “the ogre of Mazan”, a “wolf” who would have trapped their clients by making them believe in the scenario of a libertine couple where the wife would pretend to sleep. His daughter Caroline, who only refers to him as her “ progenitor », had estimated at the bar that he was “ one of the biggest sex criminals of the last 20 years “.
He then explained that “ the deprivation of no longer seeing one’s loved ones is worse than the deprivation of liberty » : « I can tell all my family that I love them. There you go, you have the rest of my life in your hands », He concluded towards the five professional magistrates of the court.