Pelicot’s daughter also pursues the belief of having raped her
The day when his father and dozens of other men were condemned for raising his mother in a trial that had grabbed France was an acute personal tragedy for Caroline Darian.She fled the court of Avignon and was surrounded by a gigantic crowd of women who block traffic and sang their love and gratitude for her and her mother, Gisèle Pelicot, who had become a feminist icon in France for insisting on the trial against her husband and 50 other men were public and refused to feel ashamed as the victim of rape.But Mrs. Darian did not listen to them. It was overwhelmed by despair.The trial was finished and had not obtained the answers he had hoped for from his father, Dominique Pelicot, who also believes drugged and raped."Dominique was not tried for what he did to his daughter," said Mrs. Darian, ...