{"id":254156,"date":"2025-03-07T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/daughter-of-pelicot-accuses-him-of-rape-in-police-complaint\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:05:10","slug":"daughter-of-pelicot-accuses-him-of-rape-in-police-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/daughter-of-pelicot-accuses-him-of-rape-in-police-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Pelicot Accuses Him of Rape in Police Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/07\/multimedia\/07pelicotdaughter-complaint-photo-wqkt\/07pelicotdaughter-complaint-photo-wqkt-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Daughter of Pelicot Accuses Him of Rape in Police Complaint\" title=\"Daughter of Pelicot Accuses Him of Rape in Police Complaint\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The daughter of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/18\/world\/europe\/france-dominique-pelicot-rape-trial.html\" title=\"\">convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot<\/a>, whose trial horrified France as it detailed his years of abusing his wife with strangers, filed a police complaint against him this week that accused him of drugging and raping her as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Pelicot was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/19\/world\/europe\/pelicot-rape-trial-guilty-verdict.html\" title=\"\">found guilty<\/a> last December of drugging and raping his wife, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/25\/world\/europe\/france-rape-trial-gisele-pelicot.html\" title=\"\">Gis\u00e8le Pelicot<\/a>, for about a decade, and inviting dozens of men to their home in southern France to rape her along with him. Fifty other men were also found guilty, mostly for raping or sexually assaulting Ms. Pelicot while she was in a deeply sedated state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The four-month trial ignited deep discussion in the country about rape culture, the understanding of consent and the widespread use of basic sleep and anti-anxiety drugs to prey on people \u2014 a predation strategy that in France is called chemical submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the trial, the Pelicots\u2019 daughter, Caroline Darian, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/06\/france-rape-trial-caroline-darian-testimony.html\" title=\"\">confronted her father twice<\/a>, saying <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/18\/world\/europe\/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-france.html\" title=\"\">she was sure he had drugged and also raped her<\/a>. Mr. Pelicot repeatedly denied that he had drugged or even touched his daughter, let alone raped her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors did not charge Mr. Pelicot with drugging or abusing his daughter last year. The complaint Ms. Darian filed this week will be examined by an investigating judge or prosecutor, who will decide whether there is enough evidence or not to indict Mr. Pelicot on new charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Pelicot was also found guilty last year of taking intimate photos of his daughter and daughters-in-law. Investigators found about 20,000 photos and videos investigators on his computers and hard drives that documented many of the hundreds of rapes he orchestrated on his sedated wife, and which allowed the police to identify other rapists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There were also images taken at different times that captured his daughter sleeping in underwear that she said was not hers, with the covers pulled back and the lights on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His explanations for the photos changed during the trial. He variously said that he had not taken the photos, that he did not believe they were of her, and that he had taken them because he was being blackmailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Darian, who goes by a pen name, had hoped that her accusations during last year\u2019s trial would be examined in detail, she said in an interview this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI hoped to get the truth,\u201d she said. \u201cThat never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She added, \u201cI can\u2019t stop there. It\u2019s not principle, because my case was not investigated as it should have been\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Florence Rault, a lawyer hired by Ms. Darian to work on a new case, said there was evidence that had not been examined by investigators in last year\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are elements that were absolutely not brought to light, that\u2019s very clear. They erased part of the file,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Pelicot\u2019s lawyer, B\u00e9atrice Zavarro, said she was not surprised but had yet to see the complaint that Ms. Rault said contained 10 charges including rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and drugging someone against their will. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Already France\u2019s most infamous sexual predator, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/10\/world\/europe\/gisele-pelicot-husband-rape-murder-victims.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Pelicot has been indicted for two other cold cases<\/a>: the rape and murder of a then 23-year-old woman in 1991, and the attempted rape of a then 19-year-old woman in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both women were real estate agents attacked by a prospective client using a blade, and drugging them with ether while viewing properties. Mr. Pelicot admitted to drugging one of the women, but denied any involvement in the murder, according to investigative documents read out in court during the trial last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Le Stradic<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/world\/europe\/pelicot-daughter-rape-accusation.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daughter of the convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot, whose trial horrified France as it detailed his years of abusing his wife with strangers, filed a police complaint against him this week that accused him of drugging and raping her as well. Mr. Pelicot was found guilty last December of drugging and raping his wife, Gis\u00e8le [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/07\/multimedia\/07pelicotdaughter-complaint-photo-wqkt\/07pelicotdaughter-complaint-photo-wqkt-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4311,6195,524,105773,9403,124604,105774,6273,6677],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254158,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254156\/revisions\/254158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}