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LDominique Pélicot's chair will stay empty once more this Monday morning within the field of the Voltaire room of the Avignon courthouse. At 71 years outdated, the principle accused within the trial generally known as the “Mazan rapes” was not, in response to his lawyer, in a match state to seem. Since the trial was provisionally suspended on Thursday, the resumption was conditional on an enchancment in his well being.
On Saturday morning, his lawyer, Me Beatrice Zavarro visited him on the Pontet jail, she discovered the prisoner “weakened, feverish and feverish”. Last Monday, he had made a brief go to to the emergency room. An an infection had been detected and a prescription was given. Me Zavarro claims that the drugs couldn’t be delivered as a consequence of an absence of “stocks” on the jail. Therefore, he wouldn’t have acquired the suitable care on Thursday and Friday.
READ ALSO Mazan rape trial: the sordid “double face” of Dominique Pélicot “It's intolerable, it's unbearable from the point of view of the civil party,” protests M.e Stéphane Babonneau, one among Gisèle Pélicot's legal professionals, earlier than the Vaucluse prison court docket. If there had been a delay in remedy, it might actually be a scandal. “We were taken hostage – the court, the lawyers, the accused – in this debate between the prison administration and the medical profession,” deplores M.e Zavarro.
Towards a postponement of the Dominique Pélicot trial?
Dominique Pélicot was taken to hospital on Sunday afternoon for a blood check. “Why did he wait eight days?” his lawyer requested the journalists, who had are available massive numbers to comply with this extraordinary trial. “Despite a stone in his bladder, a kidney infection and perhaps a prostate infection, he was returned to detention!” Mr. Pélicot was due to this fact taken again to his cell on Sunday night, earlier than informing his lawyer of his refusal to seem this morning.
Me Zavarro assures that his consumer, accused of getting drugged, raped and had his spouse raped by dozens of strangers, “is not shirking his responsibilities.”
This Monday, President Roger Arata requested a panel of consultants to evaluate the well being of the accused. The conclusions of this experience will probably be communicated to the court docket on the finish of the day. Tomorrow morning, a call will probably be made whether or not to increase the suspension or to postpone the trial.
READ ALSO Mazan rape trial: “I'm very lucky to be standing, I could have stayed there” If he’s actually struggling, the remedy given by the jail administration could elevate questions. A state of affairs which isn’t stunning in response to one of many protection legal professionals, Mr.e Louis-Alain Lemaire: “I fear that the medical situation of certain prisoners is not being taken at its true value.”
Waiting within the courtroom, members of the feminist collective Femmes solidaires are perplexed. “If he had been well cared for from the beginning, he could be here,” laments one among them. Other activists marvel if the accused isn’t faking it. “He is no longer taking responsibility and that will deprive the court, his wife whom he has “objectified” for all these years and all the people who have come of answers.”
Surrounded by her legal professionals, Mr. Pélicot's ex-wife and most important sufferer left the court docket to cries of “Gisèle, we are with you!”
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