The judgment of the appeal requested by Husamettin D. begins on Monday in Nîmes, France. The 44 -year -old construction worker was the only one of the 51 defendants to take his resource to the end. It claims that it was manipulated by Dominique Pelicot.
A year after the case known in France as “The Violations of Mazan,” Gisèle Pelicot returns to court to witness in the trial of the appeal, which begins on Monday, in Nîmes. Gisèle Pelicot intends to be present to “explain that violation is a violation, that there are no small violations,” his lawyer Antoine Camus told AFP. “She would have preferred not to go through this trial again,” but.
Gisèle Pelicot, currently 72, has been drugged with anxiolytics for a decade for his ex-husband, with whom he shared 50 years of his life, and then violated by him and dozens of men he recruited on the internet, especially at his home in Mazan (Vaucclush).
Contrary to the trial in Avignon, where, for four months, Gisèle Pelicot faced about 50 men accused, this time she will only face Husamettin D., who will attend in freedom in this trial that should last only three or four days. According to the lawyer, one of his three children, Florian, will be by his side to support her.
In December, the Vaucclush Criminal Court sentenced Husamettin D. to nine years in prison, but the man benefited from a postponement for health reasons. “I’m not a violator, this is too heavy for me. The culprit is her husband, I never thought that this kind could do this to the woman,” defended the 44-year-old construction worker during the first trial.
Husamettin D. “He intends to keep his appeal in full, both regarding his criminal and penalty liability,” Sylvie Menvielle said in June.
In the first instance, Husamettin D. explained that he met on the internet in December 2019, a man who presented himself as a member of a “libertine couple” whose woman “pretended to be sleeping.” It was Gisèle Pelicot’s house that same night. He said that only when he was with her at least half an hour ago, hearing her resonate, did he realize that something was not normal. The man said that at this moment, he decided to leave, hastily, but did not consider it useful to alert the authorities.
Husamettin D. claimed to be a victim of the manipulator Dominique Pelicot. Gisèle’s ex-husband, currently 72, vehemently disputes this position. “There is no possibility for Dominique Pelicot to change his opinion or posture” in the trial of appeal, explained to AFP his lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, who recalls that his client’s first words in Avignon were: “and all men in this room are violators.”
To 20 years in prison, a penalty that is being complied with, in an isolation basis. It will only go out to be heard as a witness on the afternoon of the second day of the audience.
The other 50 defendants, aged between 27 and 74, were sentenced to penalties ranging from three years (two defendants with suspended penalty) and 15 years in prison (this one went to a man who violated Gisèle Pelicot six times).
At first 16 other men also turned, but eventually gave up, for several reasons, ranging from the fear of pressure to the fear of a heavier penalty. Also, this time, the court will be composed of popular jurors.
