Dominique Pélicot and her daughter, Caroline Darian, who accuses him of having abused her when she was a child, had heated exchanges during the accused’s last speeches at the Mazan rape trial. One sentence ignited the powder.
She considers herself “the great forgotten one” in the Mazan rape trial. Caroline Darian accuses her father, Dominique Pélicot, of having drugged her and is firmly convinced that the latter raped her when she was a child. Accusations which are based on photos found on the computer of the man accused of having raped his sedated wife and of having handed her over to other men: the photos show a child sleeping, naked or in lingerie. They don’t are reminiscent of certain photos of Gisèle Pélicot taken without her knowledge in skimpy outfits, but are not as explicit as those illustrating the rapes suffered by the mother.
Caroline Darian’s accusations were not upheld at the Mazan rape trial, but they were raised several times by the person concerned who attended the trial, by her mother who is the victim and by her father who is the accused. If the 45-year-old woman tried to make her father confess to the rape she thinks she suffered, the accused has always denied having harmed or abused his children. “I maintain that I have never touched my children and grandchildren whom I love enormously,” the 71-year-old man declared before the Assize Court during his last speech, on Tuesday, November 19. Gisèle Pélicot and Caroline Darian’s lawyer, Me Camus, had previously asked her to “provide an explanation […] on these photos and this deleted ‘my naked girl’ file”.
In a speech similar to the one he has given since the start of the trial concerning his daughter and possible sexual abuse, Dominique Pélicot declared that he did not remember having taken his photos and maintained that he had never touched Caroline Darian or another of his children. “If I had done it, I would say it. I say it straight in the eye, I never touched her,” he said from his box, sometimes speaking directly to his daughter: “Frankly Caroline I never did anything to you…”
He gave the same answer this Wednesday, November 20 after his lawyer, Me Zavarro, informed him that a confession would not change anything in his sentence. An identical defense that this time he accompanied by the expression of his feelings for his daughter and the wish to be believed one day: “Even if she no longer loves me, I will always love her. I know what I did and what I didn’t do. […] The only hope I have is that she can have proof that I never did anything.”
Words to which Caroline Darian gives no credit. “You lie, you lie, you don’t have the courage to tell the truth,” replied the forty-year-old who fought against chemical submission, to which her mother was a victim and which she thinks she suffered, her has been fighting for four years. At the start of the week she had already pointed out her father’s lies: “You don’t look at me the way a father looks at his daughter, but in an incestuous way. But you will never have the courage to tell the truth” she told him again. spear.
Dominique Pélicot asks for support from his daughter
The last exchanges between Caroline Darian and Dominique Pélicot were frustrating or weary depending on the point of view of the protagonists, but violent for everyone. They even became explosive after a sentence uttered by the accused. When a defense lawyer asked him who he would like to see for support during his detention, the man said he would choose to see his daughter. He added that he was ready to “give [sa] life to [sa] girl so she doesn’t think what she thinks [de lui]”.
In response, Caroline Darian promised him solitude: “You will die in lies. You are alone in lies.” And to add, accusing him of never having admitted the potential abuse that she accuses him of after the “many occasions” that presented themselves: “I would never go see you. You will end up alone like a dog.” “We always end up alone” replied Dominique Pélicot. But it was her daughter, who remains unanswered as to the violence she believes she suffered, who won the game: “You especially”.