‘You’ll die alone like a canine’: Daughter tells French man accused of drugging spouse in mass rape trial | EUROtoday

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Caroline Darian, the daughter of fundamental defendant Dominique Pelicot, shouted at him from the courtroom that he would “die alone like a dog” throughout the ongoing French mass rape trial.

Ms Darian, 45, has accused her father of drugging and abusing her, citing disturbing semi-naked pictures discovered on his laptop computer. While Mr Pelicot denies abusing his daughter, he has confessed to drugging his spouse, Gisele Pelicot, for years and orchestrating a scheme to have males rape her whereas she was unconscious.

On Wednesday, Mr Pelicot spoke about his daughter from the stand. “Some may laugh but it is my daughter I wish I could look at in the face. It hurts to see her like this. I would love to see her, I would love to talk to her,” he stated.

Ms Darian responded: “I will never come see you. Never. You will die alone like a dog.”

“We all die alone. You especially.”

In her e book, And I ended calling you dadMs Darian, writing below a pen identify, recounts her rising torment over the suspicion that she too had fallen sufferer to her father’s “perversity”.

The e book is about to be revealed in English, with the title And I Stopped Calling You Fathersubsequent month.

In his closing assertion on Wednesday, Mr Pelicot once more admitted to the costs of drugging his spouse and orchestrating a scheme the place males would rape her whereas she was unconscious, stating that his actions had been pushed by a want to fulfil a “fantasy”.

“I came to do what I did through people who willingly accepted what I proposed,” he advised the court docket.

Ms Pelicot is the principle sufferer within the case that her daughter has described as one among “unbearable atrocities”. She has been left to endure with 4 sexually transmitted infections from the assaults.

Ms Pelicot pushed for a public trial, selecting to forgo her anonymity within the hope that her testimony would possibly defend different girls from related struggling.

Investigators have documented 92 alleged rapes of Ms Pelicot involving some 72 male suspects, 51 of whom have been recognized.

She has described being “sacrificed on the altar of vice”.

Mr Pelicot was first arrested in September 2020 on suspicion of secretly filming up girls’s skirts at a grocery store in Carpentras, France.

A subsequent search of his gadgets reportedly discovered lots of of pictures and pornographic movies of ladies, together with a few of his family members.