2024-09-18 21:57:10
Gisèle Pélicot, the woman who was raped by strangers while her husband filmed her, said that “rape is not the right word, it is barbaric.”
Gisèle Pélicot is a 71-year-old woman who is currently experiencing what she hopes will be the end of the nightmare she lived through for almost a decade, in which Her husband drugged her to end up being raped by strangers while he was recording them.
The Frenchwoman testified on Thursday at the Avignon court where 51 men are being tried, including her now ex-husband, Dominique Pélicot, on which occasion she said that I wanted the process to be public to help “other women who may be in the same situation”.
In her first words in court, the victim acknowledged that after learning about what happened to her for almost ten years, “My world is collapsing, everything is collapsing“.
“We had three beautiful children, seven grandchildren, we were the ideal couple.“Gisele recounted, speaking of the man she now refers to not as her husband but as Mr. Pélicot.
“Barbarism”
During her testimony, the woman acknowledged that after the police told her about the thousands of videos and photos where she was seen being raped, and that her husband had stored on his technological equipment, He spent years without being able to see them and only did so to prepare for the trial..
“I don’t recognize myself, these are scenes of rape. I’m in my bed, inert, asleep and they are raping me (…) I was sacrificed to the altar of vice“, Gisèle noted.
She later expressed that “I was used like a rag doll. They take advantage of me, they treated me like a bag of trash“.
“These men are defiling me, taking advantage of me. And not one of them says that there is something wrong.“she said of the 72 men, aged between 26 and 74, who appear in the videos while they were abusing her in her own bed, although only 50 of them are on trial.
“These are not sex scenes, they are rape scenes. There are two or three on top of me and I am inert. Rape is not the right word, it is barbarism“the victim told the court.
On the other hand, the couple’s daughter, Darian, who was photographed naked by her father, told Le Parisien that she is haunted by the fear that her father had invited the men who raped her mother to do the same to her, indicating that “I’m convinced I was drugged, but he will never admit it.“.