A man on trial in France for drugging his wife and inviting dozens of men to rape her over a decade told a criminal psychologist that his wife was to blame for his actions because she wouldn’t go swinging with him.

Dominique Pelicot, 71, was excused from sitting through today’s hearing after his lawyer told the trial judge that he had suffered ‘medical problems’ over the past 48 hours for which he had not received ‘adequate treatment’.

But psychologist Annabelle Montagne told the court in Avignon this morning that she interviewed the retired electrician in December 2020 - a month and a half after he was taken into custody - where he admitted to carrying out the campaign of abuse of his wife Gisele.

‘Pelicot said: ‘‘My wife and I had a discussion about swinging but she didn’t agree so I drugged her’’,’ the psychologist recounted.

Madame Montagne said Pelicot maintained he loved his wife, but she added: ‘He sees his partner as an object to satisfy his sexual and narcissistic needs. His wife is then a partial object and no longer an object of total love.’

  • Sundial@lemm.ee
    36·
    3 months ago

    This is how rapists justify their actions. With disgusting remarks like this that try to lay the blame with the victim. I feel so sorry for the wife, this is one of the worst things to go through as a spouse.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      3 months ago

      This isn’t even justification… this is just a straight up remorseless admission. “She said no, I understood her no… then I did it anyways”

      Rapists often justify their actions through appeals to irresistible desires or feigned misunderstandings (aka playing hard to get)… this asshole just felt justified to ignore her personhood and hopefully that leads to an open and shut trial.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Are there any uk press materials that aren’t trash? Every time I hear of one of your papers it’s tabloid garbage

    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
      222·
      3 months ago

      With so many women willing to do anything for money he had to go against his wife’s consent… he belongs behind bars for being dumb.

      I think that’s really all you need. The rest is just… kinda… not good.

        • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
          201·
          3 months ago

          Ok friend, I’ll spell it out for you, just so going forward you don’t have an excuse when making the same mistake.

          With so many women willing to do anything for money

          Other women have nothing to do with this story. With so many other people getting this right, you have no excuse for getting it so wrong.

          he belongs behind bars for being dumb.

          Stupidity isn’t a jailable offense. If it was, I’d have you brought up on charges. Instead, he belongs in jail because he broke the law. He is a terrible person, and his actions are irredeemable, but I could say the same about Mother Teresa. This man belongs in jail because he broke the law.

        • the_tab_key@lemmy.world
          131·
          3 months ago

          You’re implying that if there weren’t other women willing to do so, it would be ok for him to drug his wife without consent.

          • andrewta@lemmy.world
            13·
            3 months ago

            How is he coming close to implying that?

            Sometimes people just piss me off. Reading shit that isn’t there. Read all his comments. Might help you out.