French prosecutor’s office demands four to 20 years in prison for 51 accused of raping Gisele Pellicot
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Avignon, which is judging the case of Dominique Pellicot (71 years old), the husband who, between 2011 and 2020, drugged his wife Gisele (71 years old) in their family home in Mazan (Vaucluse) Was. ), accused of photographing and filming hundreds of rapes, his case against 51 other defendants ended on Wednesday morning, Demand for prison sentence of four to twenty years,
Last week, prosecutors had sought twenty years in prison for Dominic Pellicote, the maximum sentence under the current penal code. The “man orchestrating” the rapes of his own wife.“Perverted, egotistical, disturbed man, with multiple sexual deviance, rape victim, without any limits or consideration about his wife.”
In total, over a hundred people raped Gisele Pellicot, but only 51 were arrested and are on trial.
The minimum sentence I asked forJoseph C. (69 years old) was given a four-year prison sentence for sexual assault without rape, given by the prosecutor’s office. In their lengthy and detailed request, prosecutors asked for ten years for eleven accused, eleven years for two, twelve years for thirteen, thirteen years for six, fourteen years for six, fifteen years for three for the remaining accused. Jail is requested. Sixteen years for four, seventeen years for three and eighteen years for the last accused.
In his closing statement, prosecutor Laure Chabaud highlighted a fundamental ethical problem The “inappropriateness” of the penal code in the face of such a brutal case.With this statement: “No matter how old you are, twenty years in prison is a long time. A sentence of twenty years, as requested against Dominic Pellicott, is, at the same time, too much and too little. “Considering the acts committed and repeated, very little.”
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The “acts and repeated” tragic rape of a woman by her own husband after she had drugged him was confirmed and exposed to the public attending the trial. Based on this brutal testimony, the Prosecutor’s Office hopes that the process and convictions, At the end of the year, Presumably, it has a “historical dimension”.
Jean-François Mayet, Deputy Prosecutor, justified this widely shared opinion for the following reasons: «Normal or accidental rape does not existThis process must fundamentally change relations between men and women.”
Addressing the presidency of the Avignon Court, Mayet said: “It may be possible to see for some of the accused some form of awareness of their crimes. But, overall, the idea of a kind of “communion” among accused rapists. The number of accused does not indicate their innocence, which is worse than unfair. This is a reflection of the impressive scale of the fight that has begun and that we must continue after this process,
The prosecutor’s office concluded its request with a moral appeal to society, and especially to men: «The sentence shows that ordinary or casual rape does not exist. It is important to send a message to all women who are victims of sexual violence. We must tell men that they too have to join this fight. And education must bring about the profound change that our society demands.”
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