French rape trial: daughter of main defendant testifies and gives chilling account

“How can one rebuild oneself when one knows?” she asked. Caroline Dariandaughter of the main accused and who uses the pseudonym used to write the book “I stopped calling you dad” to protect his family.

The woman testified for about 20 minutes at the court in Avignon, in the south of France, which is trying his father and others until December 20 50 menbetween 26 and 40 years old, for aggravated rape.

Darian recalled how his life “changed” on November 2, 2020, when he learned the facts. His motherto whom the police had just explained that he had been rape victim For years, he called her to tell her. “My mother told me: ‘I spent almost the whole day at the police station. Your father drugged me to rape me with strangers“I had to see photos.”

After hearing this, he called his brothers and said that they were helpless, crying and did not understand what was happening. “We are sufferinga pain that I do not wish on anyone,” she declared in tears. A day later, on November 3, 2020, the Carpentras police explained to the three brothers that “between 30 and 50“men raped Gisele Pelicothis mother.

Photographs revealed more victims of abuse

At the end of the investigation, the investigators estimated that 72 men They sexually assaulted their mother between July 2011 and October 2020, of which only one person was arrested identify at 50.

However, the wife He was not the only victimsince Dominique Pelicot also photographed He undresses his daughter Darian, the wife of his son David, and Aurore, the ex-partner of his son Florian. These photographs ended up in Internet and were key to revealing and providing evidence in court regarding the atrocious acts committed by the accused.

Through her lawyers, Gisèle Pelicot, the main victim, asked this Friday for an end to the fundraising campaigns of funds opened for her and called the “maximum moderation” on social media, where the names of all the accused are circulating.