In the trial of the viols of Mazan, the last months of Dominique Pelicot and his co-defendants

“Have you decided on a defense?” The question was put to us on December 16th by the president of the Vaucluse crime, Roger Arata, to all the defendants of the Violas of Mazan. Ultimately, after this 64-year audience journey and after three months and half an hour, the woman’s name evoked a response in advance.

Prenant tantôt des airs contrits («mes excuses à Madame Pelicot»), tantôt revendicateurs (“I have a lot of information that you didn’t get to know!”), Tantôt Concis (“Je n’ai rien à jouter”), reconnaissance officers (“Messieurs and Mesdames de la cour, je vous remercie de m’avoir écouté”), clamant leur innocent (“I’m waiting to make sure I don’t have a dangerous person.”), 50 men are not even successful (the 51st is en fuite) on the barre for an hour. Gisèle Pelicot was testified in two weeks of defense when she left the marble.

The Premier says the word…