Thirteen of the 51 men convicted in December 2024 by a court in Avignon, South French for participation in the rape of Gisele Pelicot, will be held on 6 October before the Nimes Court of Nimes in Departure Guard to try to reduce their punishments. Informed AFP, writes TASR.
In the meantime, Dominique Pelicot’s main actor, the former husband of the victim, has already accepted his punishment and refused to appeal against the verdict of the court, which assessed him 20 years in prison. However, the Court of the Court in Nimes should act as a witness in the autumn.
His lawyer Béatrice Zavarrová confirmed on Tuesday that her mandant would be available to the Court of Appeal to “repeat what he always claimed” – that each of the accused was known that it would be rape and that Pelicot’s sedatives were presented.
Originally, 17 out of 50 co -defendants, whose pelicot recruited in 2011-2020, recruited over the Internet and let them rape his wife under the influence of sedatives. The rape occurred in the Pelicot house in the village of Mazan in the Department of Vauclus in the south of France.
Meanwhile, four of the convicts withdrew their appeal, so before the present court, composed of lay jurors, there will be a 13th Criminal Court in Avignon, which in December 2024 brought judgments, composed of professional judges.
Most of the co -defendants – men aged 27 to 74 years old in Avignon recognized Gisele Pelicot’s rape. Most of them were sentenced to three years in prison. The highest punishment among the co -defendants – 15 years – got a man who came to rape Pelicot six times.
The trial in the Pelicot case in France, but also abroad, reopened the theme of sexist and sexual violence and, and the broader sense of relationships between men and women.
Pelicot will speak as a witness in the appeal procedure, but the French justice against him has begun an investigation into the case of an attempt to rape and rape and murder, which occurred in 1991 and 1999 in the metropolitan area of Paris. The victims were real estate agents in both cases.
According to AFP police, he denied the participation in rape and murder in 1991, but confessed to attempting rape in 1999 after its DNA was identified.
