The Prosecutor’s Office requests 20 years for Dominique Pelicot, the maximum possible sentence for rape

The Prosecutor’s Office requested this Monday 20 years in prisonthe maximum penalty in France for the crime of rapefor Dominique Pelicotby having abused his wife for 10 years, whom he drugged with sleeping pills and who he offered to dozens of men so that they could also abuse her.

The prosecutor of the Court of Appeal of Avignon (southeast France) Laure Chabaud requested that maximum sentence “with the greatest conviction”, and justified it by the psychology of Dominique Pelicot, whom she described as a perverse, egocentric, disturbed man, with multiple sexual deviations who wanted to satisfy his desires without setting “any limits” and without the consent of the victim.