The daughter of Frenchman Dominique Pelliquot found guilty of drugging his ex-wife so she could be raped by dozens of strangers said her father “should die in prison” in comments released on Saturday.
In her first television interview since Pellicot was jailed for 20 years last month following a trial that horrified France, Caroline Derian told the BBC that her father “was always a sexual pervert”.
“He should die in prison, he’s a dangerous man,” Derian said in “Pellicott’s Trial: The Daughter’s Story.” Which the British broadcaster will broadcast on Monday.
Pellicott, 72, was convicted of drugging and raping Giselle Pellicott and inciting dozens of men to do the same over a decade.
About 50 co-defendants were also found guilty after a three-month public trial in the southern French city of Avignon and given various sentences ranging between three and 15 years.
Gisele Pellicot waived her right to a closed trial and was honored as a hero for her courage and dignity.
“There’s no way you can wake up one morning and say, ‘Okay, I’m going to drug my wife,'” Derian said.
“So I think there are two Dominics in there at once. He decided to choose the dark side.”
He further added, “I don’t know whether he is a monster or not, but he knew very well what he did, he is not sick. He did everything deliberately.”
Darian herself believes that Pellicott drugged and raped her, as photographs of her naked and unconscious body were found in the detailed records kept by her father about his crimes.
Pellicott denied during the trial that he had ever abused her as the two clashed in the courtroom.
“He lies all the time,” Darian told the BBC.
“I know he probably drugged me to sexually assault me, but I have no proof.”
Derian said she now sees her father only as “a stranger”.
“I look straight at the criminal, the sex offender,” she said.
The release of the interview comes as Darian will narrate a TV documentary on the use of drugs to enable rape and sexual abuse.
Scheduled to be broadcast by France 2 on January 21, the 90-minute film will include testimony from six other victims of rape after being unknowingly drugged.
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