Monster of Avignon Dominique Pelicot raped his former wife in a motorway rest area since it was his fantasy. He told a court that the incident happened while they were returning from vacation. Gisele Pelicot’s lawyer revealed more terrible details about the ordeal where he said Pelicot planned on ‘offering her’ to truckers.
However, Dominique Pelicot insisted “no one else was involved” in that incident.
He said, “It was a fantasy of mine. We were on our way back from the Ile de Re and I stopped at a service station and I raped her. No one saw and it was not in full view of anyone else.”
However, later, defendant Abdelali Dallal admitted that he also raped Pelicot that day after being driven there by his then-partner after being contacted via the Coco.fr swinging website. His partner waited outside in her car while he raped the woman.
“As I speak now, yes there were two rapes. But even now to this day, I don’t know why I went there,” the 46-year-old told the court.
He further said that Pelicot told him that he had drugged his wife and he didn’t need to worry about “wearing a condom”.
Responding to Dallal’s testimony, Pelicot said, “Firstly I would like to say how sorry I am to see him in the condition he is. I would also like to say that he is the first to say things as they are. Yes, I told him not to worry about a condom.”
A former prison warden also raped Gisele
The horrific rape case from France has been making headlines for weeks. Dominique Pelicot, the husband, has been accused of drugging his wife and inviting strangers to rape her while he filmed the act.
Gisele Pelicot has waived off anonymity to testify in the case against her former husband and others. She wants her harrowing experience to help other sexual abuse victims.
Another person linked to the case and accused of raping Gisele is a former prison warden who guarded the Monster of Avignon. Quentin Hennebert was working at the jail where Pelicot was kept after being arrested in 2020 for upskirting.
He said he had joined the swinging site Coco.fr to “sell ecstasy and MDMA”. Hennebert visited their home in the village of Mazan in November 2019 during his time working at the prison.
He has admitted to raping Gisele and told the court that he had access to judicial papers, and investigative stuff from the police in his job and saw Pelicot’s name come up.
“I made the connection with what had happened, and I thought sooner or later the police would come to my door. I haven’t really been at peace since I saw the name,” he said.
“When I got into my car afterwards, I realised I had made a big mistake, and I just wanted to wipe it from my memory,” he added.