Gisèle Pelicot wants to visit her ex-husband in prison because “she needs to understand”

Paris.- Gisèle Pelicot stated that she intends to visit her ex-husband, sentenced to 20 years in prison for having offered her to about fifty people to be raped while she was drugged between 2011 and 2020, because she still “needs to understand”.

“I have pending questions: Why did he make us suffer all this? Why did he betray us to that point?” declared Gisèle Pelicot in an interview on ‘France 2’, who is publishing a book this Tuesday ‘Et la joie de vivre’ (translated as ‘A hymn to life’ in its Spanish edition). The septuagenarian, turned into a global feminist symbol for, among other things, having decided that the legal proceedings regarding her rapes should be open to the public, asserted that meeting with Dominique Pelicot is one of the pending items she has to “continue her process of reconstruction”.

“I still need to understand”, insisted Gisèle Pelicot, who acknowledged that it is “impossible to forget” what happened to her. “I try to let the wounds heal, but in my own way,” she added.

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When explaining why the hearings of her high-profile trial were not held behind closed doors, the woman explained that this would have been “a gift” for the 50 individuals who were tried and convicted for having participated in the rapes organized by her ex-husband. Gisèle Pelicot also lamented that Dominique Pelicot had photos on his computer of a sexual nature and non-consented of his daughter Caroline, who appears asleep, and of his two daughters-in-law. “They are disgusting, unbearable photos to look at (…) For Caroline, there is a doubt (about what happened) that condemns her to perpetual hell.” “She needs to take that fight as a woman,” added Gisèle Pelicot, 73.