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The prosecutor’s office has completed a request for sentences for 51 accused of assault and rape for chemical delivery vs. Giselle Pelicot and demanded prison sentences for all of them ranging from 4 to 20 years, the maximum in France.

“There will be a before and an after,” said the prosecutor of the criminal court of Avignon (southeast France) Laure Chabot at the end of her request this Wednesday, which asked “real and deep awareness on the concept of consent” for the accused as well as for society.

In fact, this was a key element of the Prosecutor’s argument in the charges brought last Monday against ask for the conviction of all the accused: They never had the victim’s permission to do what they did, nor did they ask for it.

The prosecutor questioned the chairman of the court, Roger Arata, so that once and for all the crime would never be classified again. violation “normal” or “involuntary”, as the defense of several accused tried to prove.

Prosecutors’ sentencing requests began Monday with a request from Dominic Pelico, a 71-year-old admitted rapist and brutally abused main defendant.maximum penalty of 20 years for aggravated rape, being the mastermind of a plan to drug a victim for nearly 10 years so that dozens of men could rape her.

Chabot argued the demand for maximum punishment based on the psychology of the confessed rapist, whom he described as perverted, self-centered, troubled person, with multiple sexual deviations, which he wanted to satisfy without setting “any restrictions” and without the consent of the victim.

“Twenty years is a long time. (…) No matter how old you are, he is not small. This is both too much and too little. Too little, considering the seriousness of the actions. committed and repeatedly,” the prosecutor said.

Total there are 51 accused and on this Wednesday the last four requests for sentences were made, which were among from 16 to 18 years old and they are the tallest after Dominique Pelicot.

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The lowest term required by prosecutors is 4 years. The case was against Joseph K., a 69-year-old man, for sexual assault because prosecutors failed to understand the abuses he committed against Giselle Pelicot, who became a global feminist symbol by deciding that the trial would be public so that “shame would change sides.” .

For his part, Jean-Pierre Maréchal, the only one on the bench who had never insulted Giselle Pélicot, could have received 17 years imprisonment To repeat methods What Dominique Pelico taught him with his wife Celia M., whom both raped several times.

At the end of the morning hearing, when the demands had been met, Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyer, Stéphane Baboneau, expressed satisfaction with the development of the process.

“Ms Pelicot explained at the beginning of the trial that she wanted to open the doors of this hearing so that it would benefit the public and help us understand the reasons that led to this case was allowed to exist“The lawyer told the press.

On the other hand, Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer, Beatrice Zavarro, praised the words and tone of prosecutor Laura Chabot: “She had the right words. We all need to get out of this calm and serenity (…) We must continue fighting for human justice.”

The key evidence of this macro test is the thousands video and photos recorded by Dominique Pelicot with other defendants during the commission of crimes.

These documents are about 200 rapes of Giselle Pelicot from July 2011 to October 2020

It all ended last September when Dominique Pelico was arrested for shooting upskirts of several clients from the supermarket.

Dominique and Giselle Pelicot have been married for 50 years and have three children: David Pelicot, Caroline Darian and Florian Pelicot.

The main accused is also accused of other two cases of sexist violence, one for the rape and murder of a woman in 1991, and the other for attempted rape at knifepoint in 1999.

The trial will continue on the afternoon of November 27. defense arguments starting with Dominique Pelicot.

(EFE)