Daughter of Dominique Pelicot says her father ‘must die in prison’
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Caroline Darian says revelations about her father’s crimes have left her ‘mourning someone who is still alive’. The daughter of Dominique Pelicot has said her father must die in prison as she described the “crushing double burden” of being the child of a convicted rapist and his victim, her mother.
Caroline Darian, 46, says her father, who in December was sentenced to 20 years in prison after it was revealed that over the course of a decade, he drugged his then-wife, Gisèle, with tranquilisers and sleeping pills before raping her himself and inviting 50 other men to do the same, is a “dangerous man” who cannot ever be allowed free.
It will be years before Pelicot, 72, is eligible for parole, so it is possible he will never see his family again, but Ms Darian is adamant that this never becomes a reality. Police discovered that Ms Darian’s mother had been subjected to years of rape after Pelicot was caught upskirting in a supermarket and authorities proceeded to search the couple’s property.
On Pelicot’s laptop and phones, they found thousands of videos and photos of an unconscious Gisèle being raped by strangers. Describing the moment in November 2020 when Gisèle told her daughter what had happened, Ms Darian told the BBC: “At that moment, I lost what was a normal life. I remember I shouted, I cried, I even insulted him. It was like an earthquake. A tsunami.”.
