Dominique Pelicot’s daughter presses violation charges against him

Caroline Drian, Dominique’s daughter and Gisèle Pélicot, is pressing charges against her father, accusing him of drug and rape her, something she has always denied.

Last December, Dominique Pelicot He was sentenced to 20 years in jail For drugping his ex -wife, Gisèle, raping her and inviting dozens of men to abuse her also for almost a decade.

Pelicot filmed his wife’s rapes, collecting hundreds of videos that carefully cataloged on a hard drive.

Among them there were also two photos of their daughter, in which Mrs. Daraian, 46, says she is clearly unconscious, sleeping in an unknown position and with underwear that she does not recognize.

Dominique Pélicot has offered contradictory explanations for photos, but has always denied having sexually assaulted her daughter.

Mrs. Drian has long said that the photos are evidence that her father also drugged her and raped her.

“I know he drugged me, probably because of sexual abuse. But I have no evidence,” he told the BBC in January, when She also talked about the shock that the police have shown her photos. for the first time.

He Exchanges from the courtroom between Mrs. Daraian and her father They were some of the most dramatic in the 16 -week test that surprised France and the world. “I never played you, never,” Pelicot begged his daughter during a session. “You’re lying!” Mrs. Daraian replied.

Mrs. Daraian said previously that she felt she was the “forgotten victim” of the trial, since, unlike his mother’s case, there was no record of the abuse that he is convinced that he was inflicted.

She told Elle France earlier this week that the charges that she is pressing against her father were “symbolic” but “in line with what I have said from the beginning: that I am a victim of chemical submission (assault facilitated by drugs) but was never recognized as such.”

She has hired the lawyer Florence Rault to represent her.

For many years, Mrs. Rault has been fighting for justice for two women who were the Victims of violent evidence in the 1990s.

One, a young real estate agent known by the pseudonym Marion, was the victim of an attempt to violation in 1999, which Pelicot has admitted.

The other, also a real estate agent of about 20 years, was violated and killed in 1991. Pelicot is currently being investigated on that case, but has always denied any participation.

Mrs. Drian said she saw similarities between her and Marion. “See you strangely the same. She is blonde, her hair is silly, we were born the same year … I wanted to meet her lawyer and listen to all the details,” he told Elle France.

In his police complaint, which was summoned by the French media, Mrs. Rault regretted that Mrs. Daraian had never offered her gynecological exams or tested the drugs that Pelicot used in his wife.

Mrs. Rault said that the investigation had only focused on Gisèle Pelicot and that her client had been treated as a “peripheral victim.” She asked the authorities to initiate a new “serious and deep” consultation.

Béatrice Zavarro, lawyer from Dominique Pélicot, told the French media that Mrs.’s decision would give the charges “inappropriate given their statements and beliefs during the Avignon trial.”

He also said that prosecutors in Avignon, in southeastern France, said there were not enough “objective elements” insufficient to accuse Pelicot of rape and use chemical submission about their daughter.

Forty -nine men were sentenced in December with Dominque Pelicot. All were declared guilty of at least one position (rape or sexual assault, against Gisèle Pelicot.

Seventeen initially said they would appeal the charges against themBut seven of them have changed since then.

Those who decide to move forward with their appeals will go to trial at the end of the year in Nîmes, southern France.

The first trial, which lasted from September to December 2024, attracted worldwide attention thanks to Gisèle Pelicot’s decision to renounce his anonymity and open the trial to the public and the media.