The prosecutor’s office requests prison sentences for the 51 rapists of Gisele Pellicot

The Prosecutor’s Office yesterday fulfilled its request for sentencing for 51 accused of assault and rape under chemical subjugation against Gisele Pellicot and requested prison terms with sentences ranging from 4 to 20 years for all of them, who are in France. is maximum. “There will be before and after,” said Laure Chabaud, prosecutor of the Avignon criminal court (south-east of France), at the end of his statement, who called for a “real and deep awareness of the notion of consent” for the accused. And also for the society. In fact, this was a key element of the prosecutor’s office’s argument in the opening arguments on Monday to convict all the accused: They never had the victims’ permission to do what they did, nor did they ask for it. .

According to Efe, the prosecutor interrogated the president of the court, Roger Arata, in order to once and for all prevent rape from being classified again as “normal” or “involuntary”, as argued by the defense of the accused. An attempt was made to give.

The request for sentencing by the Public Ministry began on Monday with 71-year-old confessed rapist and main accused Dominique Pellicot facing a maximum sentence of 20 years for aggravated rape because he masterminded the incident. The plan was to drug the victim for nearly 10 years so dozens of men could rape her.

Chabaud argued for the maximum sentence request based on the psychology of the confessed rapist, whom he described as a perverted, narcissistic, disturbed individual with multiple sexual deviance whom he described “without setting any limits” and Wanted to satisfy without consent. victim. “Twenty years is a long time. (…) No matter how old you are, it is not small. This is both too much and too little. “Very little considering the seriousness of the acts committed and repeated,” the prosecutor said.

There are 51 defendants in total and the final four sentencing requests were made yesterday, ranging from 16 to 18 years old and the most since Dominic Pellicote. The lowest sentence requested by the prosecutor’s office, 4 years, was for Joseph Sy, a 69-year-old man for sexual assault, because the Public Ministry did not receive information about the abuses committed against Gisele Pellicot, who has become a global feminist. Pratik by deciding that the trial should be made public so that “the embarrassed side would change.”

For his part, Jean-Pierre Maréchal, who was the only one in the dock who never abused Gisele Pellicot, could receive a 17-year sentence for repeating the methods that Dominique Pellicot used to abuse him. Taught with wife, Celia M. Both of them raped her several times.

At the end of the session, Gisele Pellicot’s lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau, expressed satisfaction with the development of the process. “Mrs. Pellicott explained at the beginning of the trial that she wanted to open the doors to this hearing so that it would be useful to society and help us understand the reasons that led to this type of case,” he said. Advocate.

The main evidence of this macro-trial are thousands of videos and photographs recorded by Dominique Pélicotte with other defendants during the crimes, documenting approximately 200 rapes of Gisele Pélicotte between July 2011 and October 2020.

It all culminated in September last year, when Dominique Pellicot was arrested for recording herself up the skirts of several female customers in a supermarket.