Mazan Rapes: “My Father Is Without a Doubt One of the Greatest Sexual Predators of the Last Twenty Years” Says His Daughter

Caroline Darian and her mother, Gisèle Pelicot. “It hit me like a cataclysm.” MIDI LIBRE – François Barrère

Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot, tried with 50 co-accused before the criminal court of Vaucluse for aggravated rape, tells with her sisters-in-law how the whole family was also the target of her pathological voyeurism.

"All the grandchildren in this family have lost their innocence. We spend our time taking them to the hospital, to the psychologist." Stepdaughter of Dominique Pelicot, who organized the chemical rapes of his wife Gisèle for ten years, Céline, 45, testifies on Friday September 6 before the Vaucluse criminal court about the family explosion created by the arrest of her father-in-law on November 2, 2020. “My mother-in-law calls in the evening to talk to her son, I understand that it is serious. When I see him hang up, he goes to the toilet and he is going to throw up.”

A red light that comes on in the swimming pool

Beyond the horror suffered by Gisèle Pelicot, which she recounted on Thursday, all the women and girls of the Pelicot family were the target of her pathological voyeurism. In the house in Mazan, near Carpentras.“We used to send our daughters there on vacation. We asked them about it. My daughter told me that when they went into the pool, you could see a little red light come on. As for me, there were photos taken in the bathroom, there and at my house. Photos of me naked in the shower. Zoomed in on my private parts. Have they been distributed ? Who to ? My children could one day come across them ?"

A humiliating photomontage

The police discovered a photomontage, with her upper body and face, and two men engaging in sexual acts. “What kind of look did he have at us ? It's very disturbing, degrading, humiliating. It disgusts me.” She also wonders if Dominique Pelicot had his wife raped while the girls, who said they had trouble waking their grandmother up one day, were on vacation at Mazan's villa.

Ms. Béatrice Zavarro, the latter's lawyer, stands up. “Mr. Pelicot said he only brought men when they were both there.” The answer is scathing.“I don't believe anything Mr. Pelicot says.”

Caught masturbating in front of his computer

Aurore, 37, the other stepdaughter, was also treated to photo montages on her stepfather's computer, in front of which she one day surprised him while he was masturbating. The police found a file with her body and his penis, and these words: “My slut of a stepdaughter”. She details: “Pictures of me naked in the shower, taken without my knowledge, in a swimsuit by the pool, pictures of my stepfather's penis on my swimsuit”.

She learned that in the summer of 2020, when her daughters asked their grandfather to buy candy at the supermarket, “he told them he was fine with it if they agreed to show themselves naked. They told us they didn't understand”. She also heard him one day ask his other grandson to “play doctor.”

A historic case

She herself was abused by her grandfather, filed a complaint, and has already been through a trial. “This case is historic, exceptional, but I hope we won't forget all the ones that are trivialized. I have three children, and I'm afraid to see them grow up in a world where this kind of thing is possible.”

The Pelicot trial is certainly exceptional. The American, English, Japanese, Spanish and German press flock to Avignon, and Nabila has launched a kitty for Gisèle Pelicot, which is quickly stopped at the request of the family.

“How do you rebuild yourself from ashes, when you know that your father is probably one of the biggest sexual predators of the last twenty years ?” is precisely asking Caroline Darian, the daughter of Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot.

Urgently called back to the Avignon police station

“I loved the image of the man I thought I knew, healthy, caring, an affectionate father in whom I never detected, as I grew up and became a woman, an inappropriate look, a gesture unwelcome."

Just after her arrest, she was urgently recalled one afternoon to the Avignon police station. “I understand right away that I am going to have to see things that are really not going to please me.” A photo of a sleeping woman, lying on her side, with the light on.

“We see her buttocks in close-up. No, it's not me, sir.” Second shot, “same position, same woman, apparently same panties, which are not mine, same staging.” The policeman shows him: “It's you who has a brown spot on your right cheek ?” She sighs. “I discover that my father has photographed me naked without my knowledge, and I am drugged myself in these photos, because I don't sleep like that. It fell on me like a cataclysm.”

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