French rapist Dominique Pelicot’s daughter: Father ought to die in jail
The daughter of Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman convicted of drugging his ex-wife and facilitating her rape by dozens of males, stated in a BBC interview that her father “ought to die in jail.”
Caroline Darian, talking publicly for the primary time since her father was sentenced to twenty years in jail final month, described him as “a harmful man.”
“He ought to die in jail,” Darian stated in a programme titled Pelicot Trial: The Daughter’s Story, which can air on Monday.
Pelicot, aged 72, was discovered responsible of drugging and raping his former spouse, Gisele Pelicot, and orchestrating assaults on her by dozens of males over a interval of greater than a decade.
The trial, held in Avignon, included 50 co-defendants who had been handed sentences starting from three to fifteen years. Gisele Pelicot, who waived her proper to a closed trial, has been praised for her resilience all through the proceedings.
Darian spoke about her father’s actions, saying, “There’s no approach you may get up one morning and say, ‘Okay, I’m gonna drug my spouse.’ So I believe there are two Dominiques co-existing in him. He determined to decide on the darkish aspect.”
She added, “I don’t know if he’s a monster, however he completely knew what he did. He’s not sick. He did every thing consciously.”
Darian additionally stated she believes her father drugged and raped her, although she admitted she lacks direct proof. Through the trial, images of her bare and unconscious physique had been discovered among the many data her father stored of his crimes. Pelicot denied the allegations, resulting in confrontations between the 2 in courtroom.
“He’s at all times mendacity,” Darian stated. “I do know that he drugged me, most likely for sexual abuse, however I don’t have any proof.”
Darian stated she now views her father as “a stranger.” She defined, “I look straight to the legal, to the sexual legal he’s.”
The interview comes forward of a tv documentary narrated by Darian on the usage of medicine to facilitate rape and sexual abuse. The programme, scheduled for broadcast by France 2 on January 21, will characteristic testimonies from six different victims who had been assaulted after being unknowingly drugged.
