“I shouldn’t have done it. I’m going to die like a dog”

Dominique Pelicotthe man who drugged his wife Gisele for 10 years to abuse her without her consent and so that dozens of other men he recorded could also rape her, declared this Wednesday that “I should never have done this, I’m going to die like a dog.”

Between tears, He concluded his last statement before the Avignon Criminal Court by addressing his ex-wife, Gisèle Pelicotand his daughter, Caroline Darianto which he reiterated his sorry for all the pain caused, even though he recognized that “it won’t be enough.”

“She is part of what I keep deep inside me,” said Dominique, visibly moved, of his life partner for 50 years, who I couldn’t hold back my tears.

She explained that “the only hope” she has left is that her daughter “can have proof” that, contrary to what she believes, He did not drug her and rape her, as he did with her mother.

Caroline Darian, who also cried while her father insisted on asking for forgiveness, is convinced that Dominique Pelicot drugged her to abuse her, since among the files that the police confiscated there were photographs in which She appeared naked and apparently asleep.

“Addicted to sixth”

The main defendant in this trial in which he could be convicted up to 20 years in prison, assumed it was a “sex addict” and that he will die alone because beyond his lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, no one supports him. He stated that he was not aware of the extent to which he harmed his wife and children with his actions.

Zavarro noted that he would have liked his client to have spoken as he did earlier today, but that in any case he said he hoped that what he had said would be heard.

“If you understand it,” the lawyer stressed, “perfect. If you believe it, even better. If not, it doesn’t matter. But in any case, It is the truth of Dominique Pelicot”.

La sentencia, el 20 de diciembre

Junto a él, hay otros 50 encausados en este macrojuicio que comenzó el 2 de septiembre, que está suscitando mucho interés internacional, y que encara ahora la recta final.

Este miércoles está previsto el alegato de la acusación particular, es decir, de los abogados de Gisèle Pelicot.

El proceso se reanudará el próximo lunes, con la petición de penas de la Fiscalía, que se alargará hasta miércoles. Luego será el turno de la defensa de los acusados, que tendrán la última palabra antes de que se dicte sentencia el 20 de diciembre.