Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in prison for having drugged his wife Gisèle in order to rape her and hand her over to strangers in Mazan (Vaucluse), is not appealing, his lawyer announced to Franceinfo on Monday, December 30. “Dominique Pelicot has decided not to appeal the verdict rendered by the Vaucluse criminal court”the … Read more
Dominique Pelicot, at the center of the resounding Mazan rape trial, was able to influence his co-defendants, but they, to whom he handed over his previously drugged wife, could all “understand the situation” and understand that it was a rape, according to the reasons for the judgment condemning them, consulted on Saturday by AFP. The … Read more
This was the main issue in the verdict in the Mazan rape trial: was the Vaucluse criminal court going to follow the prosecution’s requisitions and very severely condemn the 51 co-defendants in a single block? Or was it going to apply an essential principle of criminal justice, that of the individualization of sentences? Ultimately, it … Read more
“Thank you Gisèle”: the banner which floated Thursday morning in front of the Avignon courthouse, before the verdict of the historic Mazan rape trial, summarizes the message of gratitude from women and men towards the one who wanted “let shame change sides”. Since the start of this trial, almost four months ago, of the 51 … Read more
“Thank you Gisèle Pelicot! » On the screen, women thank the woman who has become an icon in their eyes since she faced, with courage and dignity, the public trial of her ex-husband who sedated, raped and delivered her to strangers recruited on Internet. Among these women who participated in a collective video, launched by … Read more
The accused have their say: after three and a half months of hearings, the 51 men tried in the Mazan rape trial have one last opportunity to speak, Monday morning. Then the Vaucluse criminal court will retire to deliberate, for a highly anticipated verdict, a priori Thursday. From 9:00 a.m., these men aged 27 to … Read more
The Spaniard Ana Peleteiro, European triple jump champion, accused a former partner of rape and psychological violence on Monday on the social network TikTok. “He would wake me up at night to have sex without consent. And yet, I stayed. He changed absolutely everything about me, from my clothes to my hair, the way I … Read more
“Lures”, “deceived”even “drug addicts” by Dominique Pelicot: lawyer for six accused at the Mazan rape trial, Me Guillaume de Palma defended Tuesday “these ordinary men” who refuse to admit the rapes, unlike two other accused in the morning. “Gisèle, the women thank you”: in Avignon, where this emblematic case of sexual violence has been on … Read more
For the first time since the beginning of the arguments in the Mazan rape trial, the defense of an accused pleaded for acquittal on Monday, recognizing a « imprudence » but not the offense, in the absence of the “awareness of non-consent” by Gisèle Pelicot. Joseph C., 69, is the only one of the 51 … Read more
Béatrice Zavarro knows that this trial will undoubtedly be the most significant of her career. “However, I have thirty years at the bar behind me,” confides the lawyer who took the oath in 1996 in Marseille. The trial of a lifetime? “At the start, I did not imagine the scale that this affair would take,” … Read more