A husprohibitd portrayd as one of France’s worst relations offfinishers is anticipateed to be sentenced tomorrow – as the verdicts for all 51 deffinishants come back in the Gisele Pelicot mass sexual battery trial.
Dominique Pelicot, 72, has acunderstandledgeted drugging and raping his then-wife Ms Pelicot, 72, for almost a decade.
During the four-month trial, he elucidateed how he askd strangers to allegedly sexual battery her as well.
“I am a rapist,” he shelp while giving evidence, claiming all the other deffinishants were also conscious it was sexual battery.
The court heard Dominique Pelicot began sedating his wife with anti-anxiety medication and raping her in 2011 when they dwelld in Paris.
However, his crimes escapostponecessitated when they relocated to the pretty Provencal village of Mazan.
It was here that he shelp he began recruiting men to sexual battery his wife using a chat room called “without her understanding”.
He tbetter the men he askd to their home not to park by the hoemploy to elude discoverion.
They were also tbetter not to wear fragrance or smoke to elude leaving any pursue that Ms Pelicot may smell.
He then filmed the attacks.
In 2020, he was caught by chance when a security protect spotted him trying to film up women’s skirts in a local shopping centre.
A protestt was filed and when the police scatterigated, they establish 20,000 improper images including footage of men having relations with Ms Pelicot while she was sedated.
“He’s excessively hazardous becaemploy he’s ininestablishigent and he’s calcupostponecessitated,” shelp Christophe Huguenin-Virchaux, a lawyer for one of the deffinishants.
“Mazan is possibly equitable a drop in the ocean of what Dominique Pelicot has done.”
Fifty other men have also been on trial accemployd of sexual battery or relationsual attack.
The convey inantity refute the accuses saying they were not conscious that Ms Pelicot had not consented.
Some claim Dominique Pelicot had tbetter them that they were taking part in the couple’s relations game.
Among those facing one of the most cut offe sentences is 30-year-better Charly A.
He is accemployd of raping Ms Pelicot six times including on her birthday.
Mr Huguenin-Virchaux, his defence lawyer, has disputed Charly thought Ms Pelicot knovel what was happening.
“From the commencening, he was tbetter this was a scenario for striumphgers. A couple with a fantasy. He was weightless years away from genuineising he was participating in sexual battery,” the defence lawyer inserted.
Unconscious and powerless when she was attacked, Ms Pelicot mindfilledy waived her right to anonymity so the evidence could be heard in accessible.
Her bravery has eased millions of people apass the country and beyond to join protests aobtainst relationsual aggression.
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Judges are anticipateed to hand down all the verdicts and sentences on Thursday.
Dominique Pelicot faces the rest of his life in jail.
Prosecutors have asked for sentences tohighing more than 600 years in jail for all 51 deffinishants.
Ms Pelicot says she is a ruined woman.
The 72-year-better has shelp she is seeing a psychologist and consents lengthy walks as she tries to recreate what others stole from her.
She does not understand if she will ever recover.
And there’s no inquire, the horror of what happened to her will haunt France lengthy after the verdicts are dedwellred.
