Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for having raped his wife for a dozen years under the influence of sleeping pills and for having offered her to dozens of men to abuse her, will not appeal his sentencealthough there is a new trial because other convicts have appealed.
Béatrice Zavarro, the lawyer who received the harshest sentence in the trial that ended on the 19th at the Avignon Criminal Court, announced this Monday that her client is renouncing to file an appeal against her conviction, in statements to the radio station France Info.
“We must turn the page and consider this chapter closed,” said Zavarro, who justified it by pointing out that this resource would mean “new confrontations for his wife”Gisèle Pelicot.
The lawyer insisted that for her client Gisèle Pelicot “she is not an adversary, she has never been an adversary,” and advanced that she will now focus on try to condition the execution of the sentenceto take into account their age and state of health.
The judges sentenced Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison since at least two-thirds of that time will be spent behind bars before being able to apply for prison benefits such as a conditional release.
The fact that Dominique Pelicot Not appealing does not mean that you will not have to sit in the dock again, since the Prosecutor’s Office could file a general appeal, which would implicate you.
What is already certain is that there will be a new trial, since at least 17 of the other 50 defendants have announced that they intend to appeal their sentences and there is time until next midnight for others to join.
On the part of Gisèle Pelicota day after the sentence was made public, his lawyer Stéphane Babonneau said that he was not afraid of a new trial and that he would face it.
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