Cela lui rappelait des films pornographiques qu’il avait regardés, mettant en scène des femmes qui « font semblant de dormir et ne réagissent pas », a-t-il déclaré.
Like him, many other defendants told the court that they couldn’t have imagined that Dominique Pelicot was drugging his wife and that they were told she was a willing participant acting out a kinky fantasy. Dominique Pelicot denied this, telling the court his co-defendants knew exactly what the situation was.
For the first time since early in the trial, Gisèle Pelicot spoke Wednesday about her husband’s “immeasurable” betrayal, and expressed sympathy for the wives, mothers and sisters of his 50 co-defendants, French media reported.
“I always wanted to pull you up, toward the light,” she said, addressing her ex-husband. “You have chosen the depths of the human soul.”
Céline Piques, a spokesperson of the feminist group Osez le Féminisme!, or Dare Feminism!, said she is convinced that many of the men on trial were inspired or perverted by porn. Although some sites have started cracking down on search terms such as “unconscious,” hundreds of videos of men having sex with seemingly passed out women can be found online, she said.
