BFMTV / Screenshot “It was important for her to know that despite the fight I was waging alongside her, she had to be compensated for her pain and the betrayal she suffered,” reacted Mr. Zavarro.
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“It was important for her to know that despite the fight I was waging alongside her, she had to be compensated for her pain and the betrayal she suffered,” reacted Me Zavarro.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE – “I haven’t forgotten her fight. » In this eleventh week of the Mazan rape trial, Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer chose to have a word for the victim, this Wednesday, November 27, after leaving court.
Just after her speech, Me Béatrice Zavarro passed a message to Gisèle Pelicot in front of the many microphones present. “It was important for her to know that despite the fight I was waging alongside her, she had to be compensated for her pain and the betrayal she suffered,” expressed the one who was nicknamed in the press “devil’s advocate”. « Even if I plead and fight for him, I do not forget her fight and I deeply respect her. »
Marks of esteem before a sometimes doubtful pleading
After the indictment of the attorneys general of the Vaucluse criminal court, Monday and Tuesday, Béatrice Zavarro took the floor to defend Dominique Pelicot, emphasizing from the opening, as reported France Blueson “deep respect” for Gisèle Pelicot, her daughter and her daughters-in-law. “ I respect your status as a civil party. I have deep respect for you and for the dignity and measure that you have expressed on this stand, and even so, I still have deep respect for you ladies”she declared solemnly. Marks of esteem which did not prevent a sometimes doubtful pleading.
Thus, according to the words of journalist Marion Dubreuil, present at the hearing, Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer tried to “pleading the paradox of rape without violence”, emphasizing that the accused “doesn’t want perfume or tobacco” before adding that “ for falling asleep he does not want Gisèle Pelicot to experience what her mother experienced with her father or what this woman experienced during the gang rape.”
To qualify rapes by chemical submission, quoting Gisèle Pelicot herself, the lawyer mentioned a « parade » to satisfy “many sexual needs” who would have been “refused” by the victim, who would have “invested in [son] role of grandmother » while the accused would have “immersed in Coco” (a free discussion site notably implicated in cases of homophobic and child abuse). A familiar rhetoric, and repeatedly decried by many feminist activists and victims as being emblematic of rape culture: that which makes the unfulfilled sexuality of men (and the refusal of their partners) an explanation for sexual violence.
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