Gisèle Pelicot
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516 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Gisèle Pelicot’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because I didn't realise anything.
I saw nothing.
I think it was right at the beginning when he started drugging me, in fact.
I didn't remember what I'd done the day before, so I said to him, you're not drugging me by any chance.
And when I saw him break down in tears, I immediately thought there might be something wrong because I have an excellent memory.
And there I couldn't remember at all what I'd done the day before.
You made the remarkable decision to let the world know who you are, to waive your legal right to anonymity, which meant the trial of all these men would be opened up to the public and the media and everyone would know who you were.
Why did you choose to do that?
When I decided against a closed hearing, I wanted the shame to shift to the other side.
I'd carried that shame for more than four years.
That self-inflicted pain, I felt, meant victims were being punished twice, and I thought that if I was able to overcome it, all victims could do it too.
Shame must be carried by the accused, not the victims.
Monsieur Pellico was given the maximum jail sentence for what he did to you, 20 years in jail.
Will you ever see him again?
I haven't had the opportunity to go and see him and I hope to do so.
That's also part of my way of rebuilding myself.
So I think I need to go and see him to get answers.
There has been an outpouring of support for you from people around the world, particularly women, who began to wait for you each day at the court and formed a guard of honour as you walked into the building and then...
applauded you as you left the building.
You wrote that the crowd saved you.
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