A few months after Sentence for only 20 years in Dominique Pelicot prison for the violence inflicted on his wife Gisèlea new chilling chapter adds to this dramatic story. The man’s daughter, Caroline Darian, he decided to present one complaint against his fatheraccusing him of having it drugged and abused for a decadefrom 2010 to 2020.
Caroline, today 46 years old, revealed her story in different interviews and has chosen to tell it also in a recently published book. His testimony comes after, during the investigations on the mother’s case, disturbing evidence had emerged: images that They portrayed Caroline in poses similar to those of the mother before the violence suffered, as well as computer files with explicit content. Among these, some images were entitled “My naked daughter”, and Pelicot would have shared them with anonymous interlocutors on the web.
Speaking with the French media, Caroline explained that his complaint is not only an act of personal justice, but also a Message for other victims:
It is important for me to convey this message so that the other victims of chemical submission know that acting is possible. There are legal ways to go and you should never give up.
During the trial against the father, Caroline had already expressed the suspicion of having been drugged and abused, having found Photos of herself without senses, spread on a bed and dressed with clothing that did not belong to her. However, he had no direct tests of the abuses suffered.
Pelicot has always denied any accusation concerning his daughter
As mentioned, Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to twenty years in prison last December for making his wife Gisèle victim of a long series of rapes by unknown mendoping it and filming the abuses. With him another 51 men were recognized guilty. The case, known as the “Mazan horrors”, had a huge impact on public opinion and led to the condemnation of one of the wider episodes of sexual violence documented in France.
Despite the rehearsals collected, Pelicot He has always denied any accusation concerning his daughterclaiming to have never had incestuous behavior towards him. But Caroline, after years of silence, now asks for justice and recognition:
My reconstruction passes through the recognition of my victim status. I know the road is long, but I will not stop fighting.
In his book Pour qui the on se souviennewritten during the Avignon process and recently published, Caroline tells her experience in court, calling it “The worst of my life“And explaining the profound sense of tried injustice. Now, with this new complaint, he hopes that his history can give strength to all the victims of abuse and submissions, so that none of them remain invisible and that horrors like these never repeat themselves again. And we can all hope that, at least this time, the sentence in the event of guilt is truly exemplary.
