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Hospitalized accused of drugging his wife so that she was raped by other men
Dominique Pelicot, the man who is being tried in Avignon (southeast of France) for having drugged his wife for years so that others sexually abused her in a state of unconsciousness, has been hospitalized this Tuesday, leaving his statement and the continuity of the process suspended.
Her lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, told the press at a break from the trial that she had been informed that Pelicot, 71, had been hospitalized for medical care.
Zavarro explained that his client had begun to have the first symptoms last Friday of “a urinary infection, perhaps a nephritic colic” and implied that “he did not necessarily receive attention during the weekend.”
At the beginning of this morning’s hearing, the president of the Vaucluse Criminal Court, Roger Arata, had indicated that the main defendant would not be able to testify in the afternoon, as planned, due to a health problem, but a possible change in the program was not anticipated at that time.
On Monday, Pelicot was absent shortly after the session was started for the same reason. Arata decided to request an expert opinion this morning to know exactly his state of health and be able to decide.
His lawyer considered the postponement of the process “indispensable” if it is intended to continue in his absence, and above all, she rejected the speculations that there were this morning about an alleged maneuver by his client not to testify.
He said that he “will answer all the questions,” but said that this medical problem “that he had not scheduled” has arisen.
The process, which also puts 50 other men on the bench accused of having abused his wife, Gisèle – from whom he has been divorced since August – began on the 2nd and must end one or two weeks before Christmas.
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The sanctions also target several members of the Bolivarian National Guard: its general commander, Elio Ramón Estrada Paredes; the commander of the capital region, Johan Alexander Hernández Lárez, and lieutenant colonel, Alexander Enrique Granko Arteaga.
Other individuals sanctioned include the director of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Alexis José Rodríguez Cabello, and his deputy director, Miguel Antonio Muñoz Palacios; Brigadier General of the Bolivarian National Police, Rubén Darío Santiago Servigna, and Domingo Antonio Hernández Lárez, commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces.
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