Caroline Darian, daughter of Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot, filed a complaint against her father for rape on Wednesday, attempted rape and sexual assault. She now hopes to obtain confessions concerning her case.
She has always claimed to be “the great forgotten” of the Mazan rape trial. Caroline Darian, Dominique’s daughter and Gisèle Pelicot, filed a complaint on Wednesday March 5 against her father with the Versailles prosecutor’s office for rape, rape attempt, sexual assault by ascendant and other offenses, ten in total. As relays France BleuCaroline Darian also filed a complaint against her father for “administration of a substance likely to alter discernment in order to commit rape or sexual assault”, understand for chemical submission.
Dominique Pelicot was sentenced last December to 20 years in prison for aggravated rapes on his wife Gisèle, whom he drugged. As part of the media affair called Mazan rapes, two photos of Caroline lying down, visibly unconscious, and dressed in panties that do not belong to her were also found in her father’s computer equipment during the investigation. The name of these files: “My naked daughter on July 9, 2020” or “Face comparison mother/daughter montage”, which presented a photo of Caroline Darian and another by Gisèle Pelicot.
“Reconstruction involves recognition of [s]We status a victim “
For these photos and their sending to a stranger who was never found on the Internet, Dominique Pelicot was convicted of “attack on the intimacy of private life by recordings of a person presenting a sexual nature”, last December. But Caroline Darian is convinced, according to information from Bfmtv : She would have been the victim of sexual abuse on the part of her father by also being under chemical submission. The period of the facts could potentially extend over ten years, between 2010 and 2020. With this complaint, Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter hopes that “justice is really doing her job,” she said to the continuous information chain.
During the Mazan rape trial, Dominique Pelicot has always defended himself from having had the slightest incestuous gesture towards his daughter. “Yes, he denied, but he lied on several occasions and repeated several versions of history during the two and a half years of instruction,” notes Caroline Darian, whose The world echoes. For her, “reconstruction requires recognition of [s]We status a victim “. Invited Tuesday on France InterCaroline Darian considered that “without the confessions of Dominique Pelicot, [elle restera] With this absolute doubt “.
“So that Dominique Pelicot speaks, it takes time”
“I think it is a very complex personality and that in this court, we did not take the time to analyze it. For Dominique Pelicot to speak, it takes time and create a climate of confidence,” analyzed on Tuesday on France Inter Caroline Darian, about his father. “And to tear him off confessions, it takes time and a form of psychology that we do not have in a criminal court or a courtyard of assizes,” she said.
If Caroline Darian is now awaiting the response of the prosecution, a favorable suite would allow a new judicial step. These offenses could thus be “the subject of serious and in -depth proceedings and investigations”, estimates Me Florence Rault, the new lawyer for Caroline Darian, as BFMTV relays. During these investigations, Dominique Pelicot’s daughter hopes for new interrogations which may allow us to know more about the chemical submission of which she also says she has also been the victim, but also on the potential sexual abuse of which she would have been the victim on the part of her father.
Questioned by Bfmtv On Thursday on this new complaint against her client, Me Béatrice Zavarro, Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer, said he was not surprised. “You could expect it, taking into account Caroline Darian’s claims and convictions during the Avignon trial,” she said, recalling that “the Avignon prosecutor’s office, during her requisitions, had stressed the absence of objective elements to pursue Dominique Pelicot for these specific facts”.