“I loved her badly, I didn’t respect her and I betrayed her”

In the first time he has addressed her directly in almost four years, Dominique Pelicot He acknowledged on Wednesday that He betrayed his wifeGisèle, whom he drugged with sleeping pills for almost a decade to rape her and offer her to more than 50 men to also rape her.

“Unfortunately, my last ten years have been a catastrophe. I loved her badly, I did not respect her and I betrayed her“I repeat, I have never touched anyone else in my family, not even my children or grandchildren,” Dominique said at the highly publicised hearing held at the Vaucluse Criminal Court in Avignon (southern France).

The man who imitated Pelicot’s methods admits to being a “criminal rapist”

Dominique, addressing his wife of 50 years, She thanked her children for taking care of Gisèle after his arrest in September 2020. “I thank my children for taking care of you when I was imprisoned,” said the septuagenarian, under the indifferent gaze of his ex-wifewho responded to her ex-husband’s justifications for why the rapes occurred.

“We’ve all had traumas in our childhood, I myself have suffered them and that hasn’t made me a criminal. Afterwards, we make our own decisions“, Gisèle said.

The man who imitated the methods: “A criminal rapist”

Jean-Pierre Maréchal, the man who imitated the methods of Dominique Pelicot of drugging his wife so that he could rape her while she was unconscious and offer her to be raped, He admitted to being a “rapist” and a “criminal”and said he was repentant of the abuse to which he subjected his own wife.

“I regret my actions, I love my wife,” Maréchal said in his statement at the trial in Avignon (south-eastern France) in which he is accused along with Dominique Pelicot and to 49 other men accused for having raped his wife, Gisèle, while under the influence of tranquilizers.

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Maréchal is charged not with raping Gisèle Pelicot, but with his own wife, Cilia, which he administered for that in a dozens of times between 2015 and 2020 drugs that put her to sleep, following the instructions of Dominique Pelicot, who participated with him in the abuse.

“I have wronged my wife, it is very serious”

He insisted that he deserves jail because he was “a criminal rapist” who committed “ignoble acts” and asked for forgiveness. “I have done bad to my wife, it is very serious“he replied when the president, Roger Showsquestioned him about statements made during the investigation in which he said that deserved life imprisonmenta sentence to which he cannot be sentenced with the charges for which he is indicted (at most it would be 20 years).

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The impersonator said he met his teacher on the dating platform coco.fr, now closed by the multiple crimes that have been discoveredand that was connected “by chance” when he was looking at pornographic sites and was struck by one pop-up window.

According to his account, Dominique Pelicot He suggested that he go and rape Gisèle, something he rejected because He could not rape a woman who was not his own.. Then, in a conversation between the two when his interlocutor found out that he had a wife He convinced him to drug her and thus be able to abuse her. “If I hadn’t met Dominique Pelicot, would never have taken action“Maréchal said, explaining that the background to his criminal behaviour was the abuse, particularly sexual abuse, that he had experienced in his own family with his father.

Both of them acknowledged at the hearing that they had Livestreamed rape videos that they had each recorded on their own

Of the dozen times that Maréchal drugged his wife, only in Four or five of the anxiolytics had a sufficient effect.and strong enough to leave her in a state of unconsciousness that would allow abuse her, according to his story because he was afraid to give it to her an excessive dose.

In fact, these practices stopped one day when Dominique Pelicot was at Maréchal’s house to abuse Cilia and she woke up. Jean-Pierre Maréchal the diocese different excuses about the presence of that stranger in her own room that did not quite convince her, but the woman did not go any further and even after everything was discovered she did not want to report it and become a private prosecutoras Gisèle Pelicot has done.

Dominique Pelicot was arrested in September 2020, initially for having recorded under the skirts to some women in a supermarket in Carpentras. He then asked Maréchal to delete the images he had recorded of Cilia’s rape. However, Dominique Pelicot did not want to destroy the hundreds of videos and photos that he guarded against Gisèle’s rapes -he kept them as “evidence”, he said, and that later, once the police seized them on a hard drive, they have formed the backbone of the accusation in this case.

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Gisèle Pelicot is due to testify this afternoon or tomorrow before the Vaucluse Criminal Court after yesterday It was done by the man who is now her ex-husband (the divorce was finalized in August), which also admitted all the facts of which he has been accused. Also this afternoon they will be broadcast for the first time on the audience images recorded by Dominique Pelicot of the abuses to Gisèle.

Gisèle herself confirmed to the media the screening of these videos, in which she will be one of the most emotional moments of the process. The woman asked that the news not be broadcast. photos and videos in the adjoining broadcast room, nor that their children are present at the time of dissemination.

In the first time he has addressed her directly in almost four years, Dominique Pelicot He acknowledged on Wednesday that He betrayed his wifeGisèle, whom he drugged with sleeping pills for almost a decade to rape her and offer her to more than 50 men to also rape her.