With a laconic “yes”, 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot admitted his guilt, as he drugged his 72-year-old wife for a decade and then had strangers rape her. According to AFP, the woman remained stoic and showed no emotion during the second day of the hearing in an unprecedented case in French judicial history. The woman, the main victim, is facing the 51 defendants at the Vaucluse criminal court in Avignon. In addition to her husband, 50 other men, aged between 26 and 74, are being prosecuted for aggravated rape and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. During the presentation of the facts by the president of the court, Roger Arata, who summarized, in a monotonous and cold tone, the 31 volumes of the indictment, the main accused, Dominic P., looked on blankly. Sometimes he talked with his lawyer, Beatrice Zavaro, who sat in the […]
Source: News Beast
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