“I thought I would end my days with this man”: what Gisèle Pelicot said to her ex-husband during the Mazan trial

Gisèle Pelicot was questioned again this Wednesday, October 23, as part of the Mazan rape trial. For the first time, she directly challenged her ex-husband.

The main victim of the Mazan rape trial, Gisèle Pelicot spoke for the second time this Wednesday, October 23, at the bar, as part of a “mid-term” interrogation that the president of the Vaucluse criminal court had announced last week. The wife of Dominique Pelicot, today accused of drugging his wife to rape her and propose to her dozens of men she met online, shared her condition. “I'm a total wreck,” she said, confiding her doubts about her future: “I don't know how I'm going to rebuild myself, get back up from all this.”

&Aged 71, Gisèle Pelicot has returned to her decision to lift the closed-door trial of the Mazan rapes. The goal was 'that all women who'[are]'victims of rape say to themselves: 'Mrs. Pelicot did it, we can do it.''I don't want them to feel ashamed anymore. Shame is not ours to have, it's theirs', reports RMC. And to clarify his will: “I express above all my will and determination so that we change this society.”

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“I would like to address Mr. Pelicot”

Subsequently, Gisèle Pelicot addressed for the first time her ex-husband whom she accuses. While her ex-husband lowered his eyes, in the dock, the septuagenarian confided that she still did not understand how she had ended up there. Recalling their “fifty years of living together”, their “three children” and “seven grandchildren”, but also all the kindness and attention he gave her or the support she herself gave him when he was ill, Gisèle Pelicot then expressed her total incomprehension, as relayed by France Bleu: “I prepared for four years for this trial, but I still haven't understood why. I'm trying to understand how this gentleman, who was the perfect man for me, could have come to this. How could he have betrayed me to this extent ? How could you have brought individuals into my bedroom ? You knew my aversion to swinging.” And to launch to the audience: “I thought end my days with this man."

"The rapist is not just the one you meet in a parking lot, late at night"

“I don't know if my life will be enough to come to understand,” wondered Gisèle Pelicot, specifying that she sees “the psychiatrist every Monday.” The septuagenarian also had a word for all the women who have defended for eight weeks, during this trial, a son, a brother, a husband, an “exceptional” father. “I had the same at home. The rapist is not just the one you meet in a parking lot, late at night. He can also be in the family, among friends,” she warned, reports franceinfo.

During the first weeks of the trial, Gisèle Pelicot did not hide her difficulties. “I was told that I was an accomplice, consenting. They even tried to tell me that I was an alcoholic. You have to be strong to be in front of this criminal court. “This Wednesday, she considered the apologies made by some of the accused to be “inaudible”. “When they apologize, they apologize themselves”, she considered. As for her “courage” often highlighted in the media, the case having an impact up to International: “It's not courage, it's will and determination to move this society forward,” she corrected.