Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter claims her father, a convicted rapist, also offended her

Warning: This article may affect those who have suffered from sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

The trial of a comprehensive explosive rape in Dominic Pelicot and 50 other men in Avenue, France ended on December 19, but for his daughter Caroline Darian, the story was not close to the end.

That trial ended with I condemn Dominic Pelicot From the anesthesia and rape of his wife at the time, Gisèle Pelicot, for a decade, as well as inviting other men to do this while photographing ill -treatment. Fifty other menThey were accused of raping her while she was unconscious, and also condemned.

During the trial, Dominic Pelicot was convicted of taking intimate photos of his daughter without her consent

Earlier this month, Daraya submitted a legal complaint against Dominic accusing him of drugs and abusing her sexual treatment, which are allegations that he denies.

Since the abuse of her mother was discovered in 2020, Darian has devoted herself to increasing awareness of chemical presentation, a term used in France to prescribe others with drugs with a psychological effect for criminal purposes. Daryan organized And the social media campaign, M’endorpas: stop Soumiste Chimique, translates into “Do not fall asleep: stop chemical presentation.”

Darian, 46, participates in how the ordeal was for her mother and herself in new notes, I will not call him again.

I spoke to Pia Chatuladiahi, CBC’s Radio host Sunday magazineIn New York this week. Here is part of their conversation.

The last number of years was very difficult for you and your family. I just wonder, how do you stand up?

This is a good question. You know, I am going because I am fighting. Because I am involved with this issue against chemical submission. Now it is part of my new normal life. So I would say I am fine. I am fine, but sometimes it is still difficult.

Currently, many people know the story of your mother, but today we will actually talk about your story, which begins in a suburb near Paris where you grow with your mother, your father, your naughty David and Florian, in the 1980s and 1990s. How was family life?

We were a happy and united family. I was very close (with) my father, my mother, my brother. We have beautiful, fun and funny memories. I mean, we have passed a good childhood. I think we were really really distinguished … because our house has always been full of people, full of festive moments.

Even if it is not easy at times, of course, because life is not easy, we have really thought that we are happy.

How was your relationship specifically with your father when you were young?

It was close. He gave me a lot of things when I was a child. There was for me. (Teach) to swim, to rotate. There was to encourage me during my studies. So we had a close relationship, such as the daughter and the father, and where I used to talk to him about a lot of things … It was a truly valuable relationship with my father, and her loss.

Over time, you and your brothers, all of whom are adults now, have noticed that your mother has started to try things like memory loss, fatigue, and unjustified gynecological problems. What do you and your family think about at that time?

The first symptoms began in 2013, 2014. We noticed that it started (losing) its weight. It was often tired. Sometimes we received some phone calls with her and she had some unknown. Around 2016, we asked her to go to (doctor) because we were afraid that she was presenting a kind of mental illness, such as dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease or something like that. So I started seeing some doctors, doing some tests, and they did not find anything.

In 2020, all you thought you knew is broken. Your father has been arrested to photograph women’s skirts in a local supermarket. This led to thousands of photos and videos of your mother. She was a drug, unconscious, and was raped by him and dozens of other men. When I heard about it for the first time, those first moments, what was your head?

I was shocking and everything inside me fell. It was like all my worlds collapsed, all my basis. Because I realized, through this phone call, in a few seconds, my life will not be the same. I had to realize that I did not know my father.

She writes that there was a return to these dear memories and wrote, “This makes me feel that I feel water in the past.” What do you mean by that?

I wanted to look at all these childhood memories differently … for me they were original moments. It was real moments of love or participation, but perhaps not for him, not for my father. I am unable to contact him. My father died, even if he is still alive.

“I am afraid that I will never be able to hate it.” How did you work through this complex, these complex feelings?

During the beginning of this experience, I saw him, and a few seconds … I looked at him as my father. Then I stopped. It is a mental process, because I needed some answers. You need to get the truth. Before this trial, there were more than two and a half years (from) an investigation. So we discovered many things, (like) terrible things when I looked at him in this court, I looked at the criminal.

How was it for you in the courtroom, Caroline, you hear about the terrible things you did to your mother?

I started helping me in the mourning process. I felt very angry. What a harm within our family … … when I had to listen every day (for four months, all these things, it hurts me.

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You also have the whole world watching.

Watch my mother, yes. My mom’s support. We were really proud of her … and even if we were all in pain, what she did show an extraordinary woman.

We have all heard about your mother, but they also found two pictures deleted for you in the thirties of life asleep in bed. Lights on. The covers are pulled back. You are wearing underwear. The police call and say, we want to show you these two pictures. I can’t imagine what that moment is for you.

unbearable. For a few seconds, a few minutes, I don’t even know me. This is what we call the disintegration phase where it is in a post -traumatic position.

I am convicted of taking intimate photos of you without your permission. But you believe that these pictures provide evidence of more crimes. What do you believe an event?

Very dangerous things, which are similar (to) what my mother went through …. I know that he has anesthetized me. Perhaps you touched me, and perhaps raped me. However, as you know, I have no evidence like my mom.

You don’t have a memory for this.

No, like my mother.

You face your father in the trial. He denied anesthesia for you and did not touch you. He still deny that day.

I said, “I know what I did.” He said, “I did not do anything, Caroline.”

You scream at the end of the trial. I think you shouted, “You are lying! You don’t have the courage to tell the truth.”

It was really difficult to scream at him, to say that in this court, when you were not allowed to say anything … but this was the only time that I had the opportunity to tell what I had in my heart for my father. It was the last time, because I will not see it again.

You have submitted an official legal complaint against your father, accusing him of anesthesia and your sexual abuse. He has always denied this and continues to do so. His lawyer indicated that the prosecutor in the previous trial said that there are not “objective objectives” for trial. This is how I understand it, the police will achieve. Public prosecutors will decide whether they should move forward in the trial.

I hope so. As you know, when you are desperately looking for the truth, in order to restore you, in order to compensate you, so that you can continue in your normal life – because you know when you have some deep condemnation, but you are the only person who screams with it, but no one hears you, no one believes you – it’s very difficult. I have a chance. My brothers believe me, my husband believes me, and my friends, but justice (regime) does not believe me now because there is not enough evidence.

So I now have with this new complaint to French justice to reopen this issue and go to get more investigation because they were steeped in this file because they were focusing on Gisèle, and this is good. But please do not forget any possible victim within this family.

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