妻に薬盛り７２人にレイプさせた男に求刑２０年 フランス

【アビニョン（フランス）ＡＦＰ＝時事】鎮静剤で妻の意識を失わせ、インターネットで募った男７２人にレイプさせたとして起訴されたドミニク・ペリコ被告に対し、フランスの検察は２５日、懲役２０年を求刑した。（写真は仏アビニョンの裁判所に出廷するジゼル・ペリコさん）
　ペリコ被告は、９月に離婚が成立した元妻で被害者のジゼルさんに対するレイプと性的虐待を首謀した罪で、他の共同被告５０人（うち１人は欠席裁判）と共に南仏アビニョンで裁判を受けている。
　ペリコ被告以外では、同様の手口を自分の妻に用いて犯行を重ねたジャンピエール・Ｍ被告に懲役１７年が求刑された他、１１人に１０年、２人に１１年、４人に１２年、１人に１３年の懲役が求刑されるなどした。
　被告の多くは法廷で、ジゼルさんは性的接触に同意して眠ったふりをしているというペリコ被告の主張を信じていたと主張した。
　しかし、求刑したロール・シャボー検事は「２０２４年となった今、『相手は何も言わなかったので、同意を得ていた』と主張することはできない」「被告らは、同意の欠如を無視してはならなかった」と非難した。
　判決と量刑の言い渡しは来月２０日に予定されている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/26-19:15）

French prosecutors on Monday demanded a maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious, expressing hope the trial will help change the relations between men and women.
Dominique Pelicot has been on trial in the southern city of Avignon since September with 49 other men for organising the rapes and sexual abuse of Gisele Pelicot, now his former wife. One man is being tried in absentia.
The case has sparked horror, protests and a debate about male violence in France. On Saturday, tens of thousands of protesters staged new demonstrations across the country against violence targeting women.
A prosecutor told the court on Monday that the trial should herald a fundamental change in society.
Twenty years is a lot because it is 20 years of a life, prosecutor Laure Chabaud said in calling for the sentence.
But it is both a lot and too little. Too little in view of the seriousness of the acts that were committed and repeated.
Gisele Pelicot said it was a very emotional moment.
Dominique Pelicot has admitted all charges against him. The 71-year-old plied his wife with anti-anxiety drugs from 2011 to 2020 at their home in the village of Mazan, then strangers he recruited online raped and abused her.
He documented the crimes in photos and videos discovered by police after being caught filming up women's skirts in public.
- 'Before and after' -
Prime Minister Michel Barnier called the trial a turning point for the country's efforts to combat violence against women.
I'm convinced that the Mazan trial will mark a before and after, Barnier said, marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
This trial is shaking up our society, in our relationship with each other, in the most intimate relationships between human beings, said Jean-Francois Mayet, the other prosecutor.
What is at stake, he added, is not a conviction or an acquittal but to fundamentally change the relations between men and women.
Many of the accused argued in court that they believed Dominique Pelicot's claim that they were participating in a libertine fantasy, in which his wife had consented to sexual contact and was only pretending to be asleep.
Among them, 33 have also claimed they were not in their right minds when they abused or raped Gisele Pelicot, a defence not backed by any of the psychological reports compiled by court-appointed experts.
In 2024, we can no longer say: 'Since she said nothing, she agreed', said Chabaud. The absence of consent could not be ignored by the defendants.
Sentencing requests were slated to take three days.
Most of the defendants, including Dominique Pelicot, are charged with aggravated rape.
Dominique Pelicot, who said he wanted to subjugate a disobedient woman, was devastated by the sentencing request, said his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro.
- 'Shame changes sides' -
Prosecutors requested a 17-year prison sentence for one defendant, Jean-Pierre M., 63, who applied Dominique Pelicot's practices against his own wife to rape her a dozen times, sometimes in the presence of Pelicot.
Prosecutors demanded 10-year prison sentences for 11 co-defendants; 11 years' imprisonment for two co-defendants, and 12-years' imprisonment for another four.
Prosecutors also demanded that one man be jailed for 13 years, while four years' imprisonment was requested for Joseph C., 69, the only one of the defendants not to be prosecuted for rape or attempted aggravated rape.
Some defence lawyers have described the sentencing demands as staggering and out of proportion, claiming the public prosecutor's office was under pressure from public opinion.
I fear what will happen next, said Louis-Alain Lemaire, a lawyer for four of the defendants.
The trial has made Gisele Pelicot, who insisted the hearings be held in public, a feminist icon in the fight of women against sexual abuse.
Prosecutor Mayet praised her courage and dignity.
She was the victim of some 200 rapes, half of which were attributed to her ex-husband.
Mayet thanked her for allowing the hearings to be held in public and allowing some of the approximately 20,000 photos and videos taken without her knowledge by Dominique Pelicot to be shown.
You were right, madam: the past few weeks have shown the importance of showing this, so that shame changes sides, he added.
The verdicts and sentencing are expected by December 20.
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