“FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE”
Past Dominique Pelicot, who has admitted to all the expenses, prosecutors should additionally resolve on punishments for the opposite defendants: males aged 26 to 74 and from all walks of life.
“This trial is shaking up our society in our relationship with one another, in essentially the most intimate relationships between human beings,” Jean-Francois Mayet, the opposite prosecutor, informed the courtroom.
The trial is making French society work “to know our wants, our feelings, our wishes and above all to take note of these of others”, he mentioned.
What’s at stake, he added, “isn’t a conviction or an acquittal” however “to basically change the relations between women and men”.
Many accused argued in courtroom that they believed Dominique Pelicot’s declare they have been taking part in a libertine fantasy, during which his then-wife had consented to sexual contact and was solely pretending to be asleep.
Amongst them, 33 have additionally claimed they weren’t of their proper minds once they abused or raped Gisele Pelicot – a defence not backed up by any of the psychological stories compiled by court-appointed specialists.
“In 2024, we are able to not say ‘since she mentioned nothing, she agreed’,” mentioned Chabaud. “The absence of consent couldn’t be ignored by the defendants.”
Sentencing requests are slated to take three full days within the courtroom’s agenda, with prosecutors estimating a median of quarter-hour per defendant.
Most, together with Dominique Pelicot, are charged with aggravated rape.
“The info, and the persona of every accused, have been taken into consideration even in our sentencing calls for,” Mayet added.
