Dominique Pelicot, as in previous statements, returned to his past, saying he was scarred throughout his life by a rape he said he suffered at the age of 9 in hospital and then at the age of 14 being forced to witness the tape. – the rape of a young girl on a construction site.

“I don’t know when I’ll get out, but if I do (from prison), I don’t have any plans. What saddens me the most is that people think I’m capable of certain things that I’m not capable of doing,” he added.

Family lawyer Antoine Camus then chimed in saying Dominique Pelicot’s daughter Caroline Darian, along with her brothers David and Florian, needed a “sound and human response” to the actions she says she is “convinced” she suffered at his hands .

Caroline Darian, a pseudonym, wrote a book in 2022, Et j’ai cesse de t’appeler papa (“And I stopped calling you dad”). She believes she was also assaulted by her father, who took intimate photos of her.

“I will not try to convince her with perverse answers,” replied Dominique Pelicot.

“I don’t remember taking these photos. I tell her straight to her face that I never touched her.”

Then he turned directly to her and said, “Caroline, I’ve never done anything to you.”

But she cut her off saying, “You’re lying, you don’t have the courage to tell the truth! Even about your ex-wife!”

“You will die in lies! Alone, alone in lies, Dominique Pelicot!” she continued before being interrupted by judge Roger Arata.

Nude photos taken without her knowledge and photomontages of Carolina Darian with lewd titles were found on her father’s hard drive. In some, she appears asleep, sometimes wearing her mother’s underwear.

A total of 51 men, including Dominique Pelicot, are on trial, with one defendant still at large.

– Agence France-Presse