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https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/pelicot-trial-may-deter-other-justice-seekers-z7ncc589m
The brazenness of some of the defendants, their brutality and selfishness, are breathtaking. A 43-year-old, invited into the bedroom by Mr Pelicot and ordered to remove his condom, touched the unconscious Gisèle’s skin and recoiled, concluding: “Oh, she’s dead.” Mr Pelicot jostled his wife to get a slight response. Satisfied, the man had sex with the inert figure. On the stand he wept for himself, complaining to the judge that it had been humiliating to be arrested, stripped naked and “treated like an animal in a cage”. The irony did not concern him. “I am a victim!” he said.
A 56-year-old in his work T-shirt was videoed climaxing in Gisèle Pelicot’s silent body, giving a thumbs-up. Child porn was later found on his computer. In court he denied rape, said Mr Pelicot must have drugged him too, and raged against being alienated from his daughters while having his name “dragged through the mud”.
Yet even this immense weight of evidence wasn’t enough to spare Mrs Pelicot from the accusations put to all women who press rape charges: allegations of complicity or guilt. The defence accused her of being insufficiently suspicious, of being an alcoholic, of not crying enough in court. They suggested that she could be to blame for her husband’s crimes as she had had an affair — as he did — decades before. A dazed, exhausted Gisèle says she has been left humiliated.
For the moment, the abiding image of the past week is of Mrs Pelicot and her shattered children, weeping, while the men accused of assaulting her laugh and joke at a café nearby.
https://archive.ph/JiSKv
The brazenness of some of the defendants, their brutality and selfishness, are breathtaking. A 43-year-old, invited into the bedroom by Mr Pelicot and ordered to remove his condom, touched the unconscious Gisèle’s skin and recoiled, concluding: “Oh, she’s dead.” Mr Pelicot jostled his wife to get a slight response. Satisfied, the man had sex with the inert figure. On the stand he wept for himself, complaining to the judge that it had been humiliating to be arrested, stripped naked and “treated like an animal in a cage”. The irony did not concern him. “I am a victim!” he said.
A 56-year-old in his work T-shirt was videoed climaxing in Gisèle Pelicot’s silent body, giving a thumbs-up. Child porn was later found on his computer. In court he denied rape, said Mr Pelicot must have drugged him too, and raged against being alienated from his daughters while having his name “dragged through the mud”.
Yet even this immense weight of evidence wasn’t enough to spare Mrs Pelicot from the accusations put to all women who press rape charges: allegations of complicity or guilt. The defence accused her of being insufficiently suspicious, of being an alcoholic, of not crying enough in court. They suggested that she could be to blame for her husband’s crimes as she had had an affair — as he did — decades before. A dazed, exhausted Gisèle says she has been left humiliated.
For the moment, the abiding image of the past week is of Mrs Pelicot and her shattered children, weeping, while the men accused of assaulting her laugh and joke at a café nearby.
https://archive.ph/JiSKv