“I’m in jail and I deserve it,” said the man who replicated Dominique Pelicot’s method with his wife

“I’m in jail and I deserve it”he declared Jean-Pierre Maréchal before a French court during the trial of Dominique Pelicotaccused of drugging his wife to be raped by dozens of strangers. The 63-year-old man admitted to having been convinced by the accused and replicated the same method with his own wife between 2015 and 2018.

“I did disgusting things. I am a criminal and a rapist.“He admitted, adding: “What I did is horrible, I want a severe punishment“.

Maréchal is one of the 50 people involved in the case investigating violations of Gisele Pelicot. However, he is the only one who is not accused of having attacked the woman, but of having committed at least 12 acts of rape, filmed, against his partner, in which Pelicot – who provided her with the anxiolytics to put her to sleep – participated in at least 10.

The main defendant in the case, Pelicot, dubbed the “monster of Avignon,” admitted on Tuesday to drugging his then wife, Gisele Pelicotto put her to sleep and that she was raped by dozens of strangers contacted over the internet between 2011 and 2020. Another 49 men are on trial for participating in these attacks and face sentences of up to 20 years in prison.

During his testimony, the 63-year-old man recounted that his childhood was marked by abuse from his father. “My childhood is shame, alcohol, sex, a lot of silence,” he said.We experienced horrible acts of sexual violence from my father. I never called my father ‘dad’, but ‘the father’.‘”.

Gisèle Pelicot said she feels “humiliated” by the statements of the defense lawyers

In the context of the trial investigating her ex-husband and the other 50 people involved for having raped her for more than 10 years, Gisèle Pelicot pointed to the defense lawyers of the accused, who pointed out a possible complicity with her attacker.

“Since I came to this courtroom, I feel humiliated. They called me an alcoholic, They claimed that I was in such a drunken state that I was an accomplice,” the woman told the Vaucluse court in Avignon.

“It’s so humiliating and degrading to hear that,” said Gisèle Pelicot.He was in a coma and the videos that will be shown will attest to this. And the experts were shocked by these videos, and they are men.“, he added.

“Didn’t they raise the question (of consent)? What are these men, are they degenerates or what?“said the 72-year-old woman, alleged victim of some 200 rapes, 92 of them committed by 50 co-defendants tried since September 2 together with her ex-husband.

“I never gave my consent for a second to Mr. Pelicot or to these men,” said the woman who was married for 50 years to the main defendant and who recently obtained a divorce.