Jean-Pierre Maréchal is on trial for having participated in the abuse committed against Gisèle Pelicot for nearly a decade. But during the trial, it was revealed that Dominique Pelicot was his “teacher” and that he had taught him how to drug his own wife so he could abuse her.
Among 50 men on trial in Avignon, France, for rape Gisèle Pelicot 72 years old while he was unconscious, the name of Jean-Pierre Maréchal stands out.
The man is a 63-year-old truck driver who allegedly participated in the macabre plan of Dominique Pélicot Gisèle’s husband at the time, who drugged her unconscious and invited different men to abuse her while he took photographic and video recordings.
This is one of the most important and shocking cases in France due to the brutality of the story and the actions of dozens of men who seemed “normal” in the eyes of society.
The majority have stable family relationships and ordinary jobs as journalists, firefighters, electricians, among others.
But the case of Jean-Pierre Maréchal is a little different from the rest of the accused, and that is what the hearing says it was revealed that he was a keen apprentice of Dominique Pelicot and his technique for drugging a woman into submission.
And the victim was his wife.
Who is Jean-Pierre Maréchal, Dominique Pelicot’s apprentice
Jean-Pierre Maréchal is 63 years old and was a professional truck driver. Today, he is in preventive detention and is one of the 50 men identified as participants in the repeated rapes of Frenchwoman Gisèle Pelicot which occurred between 2011 and 2020.
Some French media called it “the clone” of Dominique Pélicot, Well, he would have taught her the technique he used against Gisèle so that men could mistreat her without her knowledge, due to the state of unconsciousness that the drugs caused her.
It was 10 years ago when the man, just like Dominique did with Gisèle, He hid anxiolytics and sleeping pills in the food of his wife, identified as Cilia M., then raped her at least 12 times in the company of Dominique.
As his defense explained at trial, Jean-Pierre and Dominique met on the forum Coco.fr sexual encounters where the main defendant, as he had done with 80 other men, offered to rape his wife, Gisèle.
Jean-Pierre would have refused, but He accepted that Dominique had revealed to him the “secrets” about how he had managed to prevent his wife from realizing the abuse.
This is how they met in person and abused Cilia, mother of their three children and to whom Jean-Pierre has been married for more than 30 years.
The statement of Jean-Pierre Maréchal in the Gisèle Pélicot case
Jean-Pierre Maréchal’s wife did not know that she was being mistreated, just like Gisèle Pelicot.
As explained in an article from The country one night in June 2020, She woke up from drugs in the middle of the attack: when he opened his eyes, He saw a stranger in his room, with her husband.
On this occasion, there was also Dominique Pelicot, who managed to escape.
Jean Pierre I tried to justify being with the man with that “I wanted to see his underwear.”
“I didn’t believe it, but from then on, I suspected that it was due to rape… No, it was unthinkable” » declared Céline at the audience. But everything changed when the police found dozens of photos of the woman naked in bed in Dominique’s archives.
She was convinced of it at that time, because every time she fell asleep, she was dressed.
Jean-Pierre’s defense assured that “He admits the facts, says he is guilty and deserves a high sentence. He is not coming here to say that his wife is lying or consented to these meetings. “No way.”
“His wife was attacked, she was raped. But now we must denounce Maréchal’s personality in court: someone who was raped, mistreated, who planned orgies in his house…”, he declared. The country Patrick Gontard, lawyer for the former trucker.
What the woman who was abused by chemical submission says
Jean-Pierre Maréchal’s lawyers They focus on a story of “trauma” : The man was said to have grown up in a poor family on a farm, his mother was an alcoholic and his father was extremely violent.
“The children were beaten several nights, tied to a tree on the property. “They took refuge in the rabbit cages to escape their father.”
Continuous: “He was raped by his father, like his brothers and sisters. One of them, in fact, could never bear it and committed suicide. It is true that he lived 45 years without reacting to these problems, but There was a trigger that brought everything to light: the meeting with Pélicot. That’s how he fell into the perversion he had seen in himself, because he had never done anything like that. »
The idea of defense is obtain some mitigation of the Frenchman’s sentence.
On the other hand, an important element of the trial is that Jean Pierre’s wife, Cilia M., did not file a complaint.
“I don’t want my children to suffer anymore. They are so unhappy now that I prefer to protect them. He was such a wonderful man that I can’t forget those years. I don’t understand anything” he declared a month ago, during the hearings.
She also added that “everything with my husband was wonderful. Everything always went very well, he was a very protective father. It is inconceivable that he did this. “It completely destroyed us.” he remarked to the judge before crossing paths with her, the first time they had seen each other since his arrest.
Source: Latercera
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