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- 0:06Speaker 1: So many times I said to myself, how lucky I
- 0:09Speaker 1: am to have you at my side, a kind and
- 0:17Speaker 1: considerate man who I trusted entirely. How can the perfect
- 0:29Speaker 1: man have got to this? How could you have betrayed
- 0:39Speaker 1: me like this? How could you have brought these strangers
- 0:51Speaker 1: into my bedroom.
- 1:05Speaker 2: We're going to take you to France next and I
- 1:08Speaker 2: should warn you this is a really distressing story. A
- 1:11Speaker 2: seventy one year old has admitted drugging and raping his
- 1:14Speaker 2: wife over a period of ten years. He also invited
- 1:17Speaker 2: other men to do the same.
- 1:21Speaker 3: This case has captured the imagination of the entire world.
- 1:25Speaker 3: It's unlike anything we've ever seen before.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Many questioning now how such dreadful sexual vites could take
- 1:34Speaker 4: place on such a big, big scale.
- 1:39Speaker 5: He was able to manipulte everyone around him for years
- 1:44Speaker 5: without them having any idea of what was going on.
- 1:47Speaker 3: There are around seventy two different men, but they can't
- 1:51Speaker 3: identify all of them.
- 1:53Speaker 6: Who are these men?
- 1:54Speaker 7: The majority of the accused, they tiell deny responsibility him apart.
- 2:01Speaker 8: I won't take ship a police was.
- 2:09Speaker 9: The rest of the courtroom fell completely silent as Giselle
- 2:12Speaker 9: Pelico said she wanted to address her ex husband directly.
- 2:34Speaker 10: H I've covered many court cases of rape. You know,
- 3:00Speaker 10: normally there's one accused, there's one victim. There's almost no
- 3:04Speaker 10: one in the court. The courtroom is packed. There's so
- 3:10Speaker 10: much that's so unusual about this trial. Your journalists in
- 3:14Speaker 10: the back, and then lawyers and lawyers and accused and
- 3:17Speaker 10: accused accused of all around you. That's something I've never
- 3:20Speaker 10: seen before. I've never been in a courtroom where you
- 3:23Speaker 10: have the accused sitting all around you. It's particular and
- 3:27Speaker 10: it's something that's this sensitive.
- 3:33Speaker 11: In September, the trial began in the south of France
- 3:36Speaker 11: that was shocked the world. At the center of it
- 3:40Speaker 11: is seventy two year old Giselle Pelico. Her husband Dominique,
- 3:48Speaker 11: has admitted drugging and raping her for almost a decade.
- 3:54Speaker 11: Alongside him on trial and another fifty men, almost all
- 3:58Speaker 11: accused of being recruited by Dominique and filmed having sex
- 4:03Speaker 11: with an unconscious gazelle.
- 4:06Speaker 3: Some of them have admitted to rape and pleaded guilty.
- 4:11Speaker 6: Others have said that they were duped. They've said that.
- 4:14Speaker 3: They were manipulated by Dominique Pelico into believing this was
- 4:18Speaker 3: part of a sex game. Some of them have literally
- 4:20Speaker 3: said I didn't leave my house that day with the
- 4:23Speaker 3: intention of raping a woman, and therefore I'm not a rapist.
- 4:29Speaker 11: Despite the video evidence against them. The level of denial
- 4:33Speaker 11: has been aided by the current French law around rape,
- 4:37Speaker 11: which has no mention of the word consent.
- 4:44Speaker 10: Many of them have hung their defense and their arguments
- 4:47Speaker 10: are that they never went there intending to rape her,
- 4:50Speaker 10: They went there for for a thrisom. And time and
- 4:53Speaker 10: time again, it's been interesting that the main judges asked
- 4:56Speaker 10: each of these defendants, you know, did you talk to her?
- 5:00Speaker 10: Did you at any point get consent from her? And
- 5:03Speaker 10: time and time again they have all said, no, I
- 5:06Speaker 10: did not talk to her.
- 5:07Speaker 12: No, I never got consent from her.
- 5:12Speaker 3: But I think also the long lasting effect of this
- 5:15Speaker 3: will be conversations in France and across the world.
- 5:18Speaker 6: Really saying how did we get here?
- 5:21Speaker 3: People really started to question how ingrained this misogyny was
- 5:24Speaker 3: in French culture.
- 5:28Speaker 11: The world has what done as in a matter of weeks,
- 5:31Speaker 11: Giselle Pelico has become an iconic figure. Her stand has
- 5:36Speaker 11: highlighted issues of shame, consent and sexual violence.
- 5:44Speaker 1: They tell me, I am brave I say it's not bravery,
- 5:49Speaker 1: its will and determination to change society.
- 5:55Speaker 3: You have to remember when you look at images of
- 5:58Speaker 3: what's happening in the courtroom and outside, that every single
- 6:02Speaker 3: day Gizelle Pelico is walking past the men who are
- 6:06Speaker 3: accused of raping her. They have their hoods up, they
- 6:11Speaker 3: wear masks, they wear balaclavas, they cover their faces as
- 6:15Speaker 3: much as they can to hide their identities, and then
- 6:20Speaker 3: you have this woman striding past them, entering the court
- 6:27Speaker 3: to applause from the public gallery, and every day she
- 6:30Speaker 3: has to find the strength to face them.
- 6:42Speaker 11: People across the world have shown their support for Gizelle Pelico,
- 6:50Speaker 11: from messages scrawled on walls near the courthouse to mass
- 6:55Speaker 11: protests of thousands across numerous cities.
- 7:02Speaker 10: This is a story about domestic abuse writ large with rape,
- 7:08Speaker 10: and then you have strangers involved. So I think the
- 7:13Speaker 10: horror of that, the relatability of Giselle Pelico, and then
- 7:18Speaker 10: of course her I think very brave and very rare
- 7:22Speaker 10: decision to make the court case public. And because she
- 7:26Speaker 10: did that, I think that is why this is now
- 7:30Speaker 10: a global story.
- 7:43Speaker 11: While the story might have become global, no place has
- 7:46Speaker 11: been as shaken as Mazan, situated twenty one miles northeast
- 7:52Speaker 11: of Avignon. It's a small medieval village with a population
- 7:56Speaker 11: of just over six thousand. It was here the Pelicos lived,
- 8:03Speaker 11: and it was here that Giselle suffered years of abuse.
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- 8:35Speaker 11: Locals have seen the story labeled on French news as
- 8:38Speaker 11: the Affair Mazin, the name of their home has become
- 8:43Speaker 11: inextricably linked to the trial and splashed across the headlines.
- 8:49Speaker 14: Such as.
- 8:52Speaker 9: And become into meteorsco one shots.
- 9:02Speaker 11: One local is Marion, who runs a center for victims
- 9:06Speaker 11: of sexual.
- 9:07Speaker 15: Violence Tranquille vu de media denier.
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- 9:24Speaker 11: There's frustration that the whole village has been tarnished, with
- 9:29Speaker 11: only three defendants, including Dominique Pelico, being from Mazan. Most
- 9:34Speaker 11: of the suspects lived within a forty mile radius, but
- 9:39Speaker 11: there is also tension and suspicion. While the police have
- 9:44Speaker 11: identified fifty of the men filmed by Dominique Pelico, another
- 9:48Speaker 11: twenty two suspects remain at large.
- 9:58Speaker 5: Patri you know there come you're six six.
- 10:04Speaker 11: Really, regardless of where these crimes took place, so many
- 10:14Speaker 11: are wondering how they could have happened in the first place.
- 10:36Speaker 3: The thing that's so scary about this is that it
- 10:39Speaker 3: actually all came out effectively by chance. The moment this
- 10:44Speaker 3: all starts to unravel for Dominique Pelico is when he's
- 10:48Speaker 3: caught by a security guard upskirting a woman in a
- 10:51Speaker 3: supermarket and carpentrass.
- 10:58Speaker 6: The actual video that.
- 10:59Speaker 3: Dominique took of him upskirting this woman in a supermarket emerges,
- 11:03Speaker 3: and what we see is his face wearing a COVID
- 11:07Speaker 3: mask and his camera sort of just subtly slip towards
- 11:12Speaker 3: her skirt. He's then confronted by a security guard. When
- 11:34Speaker 3: he's caught, it's it's the careless mistake of someone who
- 11:38Speaker 3: has been meticulous in keeping secret his perversion. It's almost
- 11:42Speaker 3: like he's had this irrepressible desire to upskirt this woman.
- 11:49Speaker 3: That's the thing that is so terrifying about this case
- 11:57Speaker 3: is that we know there are so many instant says
- 12:00Speaker 3: of sort of minor sexual crimes like upskirting that aren't
- 12:04Speaker 3: investigated properly, and it was only because the police took
- 12:07Speaker 3: this action that they found out the wider scale of
- 12:10Speaker 3: what was going on.
- 12:14Speaker 11: When speaking to police, Dominique Pelico claimed he had been
- 12:18Speaker 11: overcome by urges as his wife had been away from
- 12:22Speaker 11: home for a month. He said, this is out of character.
- 12:28Speaker 5: Dominique Pelicot sits her down and breaks down, starts crying
- 12:33Speaker 5: and tell her she said, I've done a big mistake.
- 12:37Speaker 5: And he tells her, I've done something really stupid. I've
- 12:39Speaker 5: been caught taking videos of women's crotch under their skirts
- 12:44Speaker 5: oubskirting and she pauses a moment. If she thinks about it,
- 12:50Speaker 5: forty plus years together, she knows she can forgive him,
- 12:55Speaker 5: but she says, you're going to have to apologize to
- 12:57Speaker 5: this woman, and if you do that again, I'm out.
- 13:01Speaker 5: I'm leaving you. That's it, And he apologizes. He says
- 13:04Speaker 5: it will never happen again.
- 13:08Speaker 3: At this moment, little does she know the scale of
- 13:11Speaker 3: abuse that he's perpetrated over the last ten years.
- 13:16Speaker 1: In fifty years of life together, he had never made
- 13:20Speaker 1: any obscene gestures. I tell him I will forgive you
- 13:24Speaker 1: this time, but they won't be a next time.
- 13:50Speaker 8: Confus want.
- 13:53Speaker 11: In September twenty twenty, Dominique Pelico is stopped by a
- 13:57Speaker 11: security guard for upskirting in a supermarket. Inspired by legislation
- 14:04Speaker 11: introduced in the UK, it's an act that was made
- 14:07Speaker 11: illegal in France in twenty eighteen.
- 14:12Speaker 5: The security agent plays like a very important role in
- 14:14Speaker 5: this story because if you hadn't insisted that the woman
- 14:19Speaker 5: who was being filmed without her knowing press charges and
- 14:23Speaker 5: go to the police station, she might have never done it.
- 14:25Speaker 5: She might have thought, Okay, this guy's a weirdo. But whatever,
- 14:29Speaker 5: I'm just going to go home and it's going to
- 14:31Speaker 5: be fine, and I'm going to forget about this incident
- 14:33Speaker 5: and moving on.
- 14:35Speaker 12: What's the love.
- 14:38Speaker 14: Unto?
- 14:41Speaker 5: But a video was leaked of that day in the
- 14:44Speaker 5: French media and you can clearly hear the security agent saying, madam,
- 14:49Speaker 5: you really need to press charges. Go to the police station.
- 14:52Speaker 5: This is the fourth time he's doing it today. You're
- 14:53Speaker 5: the fourth woman that this has happened to. You have
- 14:55Speaker 5: to press charge in yes, do it, and she did
- 14:58Speaker 5: it and that's what allowed, you know, the investigation of
- 15:01Speaker 5: the police investigation.
- 15:03Speaker 11: Images in the French media show how security cameras caught
- 15:07Speaker 11: Dominique using a bag with a hidden device.
- 15:13Speaker 3: So at that moment, he's been arrested for you know,
- 15:16Speaker 3: what some people would say is quite a minor sexual crime.
- 15:20Speaker 3: It's a drop in the ocean compared to what's been
- 15:24Speaker 3: happening over the last ten years. Later, police find in
- 15:27Speaker 3: the bag that he had with him a camera, a camcorder,
- 15:31Speaker 3: and some condoms.
- 15:34Speaker 5: Dominique Pelico he had two phones that were in his bag.
- 15:38Speaker 5: The police investigator got the phones and on one phone
- 15:42Speaker 5: something called his Attention Is. There was only one app
- 15:44Speaker 5: on the iPhone, it was Escape, and so he opens
- 15:48Speaker 5: Escape and he started seeing all these images, photos of
- 15:54Speaker 5: women lying unconscious on their beds and they can met
- 15:59Speaker 5: around them, and he decided to call the superior and
- 16:04Speaker 5: to basically launch an investigation to try and find out
- 16:07Speaker 5: what was happening.
- 16:10Speaker 11: All of Dominique's digital devices from his home were seized
- 16:15Speaker 11: on a USB stick. Police discover a folder titled Abuse.
- 16:23Speaker 11: Inside it, they found meticulously labeled folders containing more than
- 16:28Speaker 11: twenty thousand videos and photos. They appeared to show different
- 16:33Speaker 11: men having sex with one woman.
- 16:41Speaker 3: At the time, police don't know what's going on. Necessarily,
- 16:44Speaker 3: they don't really know what they're seeing. They noticed that
- 16:47Speaker 3: it's the same woman in every video, and then later
- 16:51Speaker 3: they realized that that is in fact Pellicoe's wife.
- 16:57Speaker 11: With so much evidence, the police faced a long investigation.
- 17:02Speaker 11: Who were these men? Was any of this consensual? Could
- 17:07Speaker 11: they really be watching one woman being subjected to years
- 17:10Speaker 11: of abuse? They began to dig into the lives of
- 17:15Speaker 11: Dominique and Giselle Pelico.
- 17:22Speaker 12: They want the very private life, quiet life.
- 17:26Speaker 10: Had three children, raised them in the Paris region, has
- 17:29Speaker 10: seven grandchildren, then retired and moved down to the south
- 17:33Speaker 10: of France. It's a pretty typical family. Nothing all that
- 17:37Speaker 10: interesting or unknowable about them. I think that makes it
- 17:42Speaker 10: super relatable.
- 17:47Speaker 6: For all intents and purposes. They had a happy retirement.
- 17:51Speaker 3: We know that they had what she described as quite
- 17:54Speaker 3: a happy and fulfilling marriage.
- 18:01Speaker 1: He made a lot of meals. I saw that as
- 18:04Speaker 1: him being attentive. One night he came to collect me
- 18:09Speaker 1: at Avignon station, after ten days with my grandchildren. He
- 18:15Speaker 1: had already prepared the meal. Two plates were already in
- 18:20Speaker 1: the oven. I put olive oil on my potatoes and
- 18:24Speaker 1: he put butter, so it was easy to see which
- 18:27Speaker 1: plate was his. We would have a glass of white
- 18:33Speaker 1: wine together often when there was a football match on TV.
- 18:42Speaker 1: I let him watch it alone. He brought me my
- 18:47Speaker 1: eyes creamed to bed, my favorite flavor, raspberry.
- 18:52Speaker 11: I told him how lucky I am.
- 18:54Speaker 12: You're a love.
- 18:55Speaker 11: You really take care of me. Despite their seemingly idyllic life,
- 19:04Speaker 11: there were signs that something might be wrong.
- 19:09Speaker 3: As early as twenty thirteen, when the couple first moved
- 19:12Speaker 3: to Massanne, Giselle was having issues with her health. So
- 19:16Speaker 3: she was experiencing problems with memory loss, she was losing
- 19:24Speaker 3: her hair, losing weight. I think it was in particular
- 19:31Speaker 3: the memory loss that really started to flag to the
- 19:36Speaker 3: wider family that something was going on.
- 19:40Speaker 5: It was this very awkward, weird sensation where she felt
- 19:44Speaker 5: like she was losing conception of time and losing her life.
- 19:49Speaker 5: Her life was kind of escaping her, so she won't
- 19:52Speaker 5: to see the three neurologists. She thought maybe she had Alzheimer's.
- 19:56Speaker 3: At the time, Dominique was being incredibly supportive, so Gazelle
- 20:01Speaker 3: was sort of being driven crazy, wondering what was going on,
- 20:04Speaker 3: but knowing that she had this very supportive husband beside her.
- 20:10Speaker 5: He's telling her that she's going to be fine, that
- 20:12Speaker 5: she's gone nothing to worry about. No one could tell
- 20:17Speaker 5: her exactly what was going on. No one could think
- 20:20Speaker 5: of really the unthinkable, and no one could imagine the unimaginable.
- 20:28Speaker 3: And it was only when Dominique was caught upskirting woman
- 20:32Speaker 3: in twenty twenty that suddenly things started to slip into place.
- 20:39Speaker 11: It's two months after Dominique Pelico has been arrested for
- 20:43Speaker 11: upskirting in a supermarket. Gazelle has forgiven her husband, but
- 20:50Speaker 11: then they are summoned to the police station.
- 20:56Speaker 5: They have a normal morning together in the house and
- 20:59Speaker 5: then they drive to the police station. Gizel Pilico at
- 21:03Speaker 5: the stage thinks that this is linked to the obscirting
- 21:06Speaker 5: incident at the supermarket. There's this powerful moment when Giselle
- 21:12Speaker 5: sees her husband Dominique being called upstairs and going up
- 21:16Speaker 5: the stairs to be a questioned and she stays downstairs
- 21:19Speaker 5: in the exchange a look and at this point she
- 21:22Speaker 5: has no idea that this is the last time she's
- 21:24Speaker 5: going to see her husband.
- 21:31Speaker 1: The officer said, I am going to show you some
- 21:34Speaker 1: things which she will not find pleasant. He opened a
- 21:38Speaker 1: folder and he showed me a photograph. It was hard
- 21:42Speaker 1: to recognize myself dressed up in a way that wasn't familiar.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Then he showed me a second photo and a third.
- 21:52Speaker 1: I asked him to stop. It was unbearable. I was
- 21:57Speaker 1: inert in my bed and a man was raping me.
- 22:02Speaker 1: My world fell apart.
- 22:05Speaker 3: I just can't stop yourself thinking what would it be
- 22:09Speaker 3: like to be Giselle in that moment, The idea that
- 22:12Speaker 3: you could be looking at somebody who is doing everything
- 22:15Speaker 3: for you, especially when you're in a moment of weakness
- 22:18Speaker 3: and illness, and you feel so grateful to them, only
- 22:22Speaker 3: for it to come out later that they've been betraying
- 22:24Speaker 3: you in one of the most awful ways imaginable.
- 22:28Speaker 6: It's really, really sinister.
- 22:32Speaker 5: It's also the night where she tells her children. She
- 22:36Speaker 5: calls her daughter first and she tells her, I'll get
- 22:41Speaker 5: something horrible to tell you. And she tells her that
- 22:46Speaker 5: her father had been raping her for many years and
- 22:50Speaker 5: inviting unknown men to have sex with her while she
- 22:54Speaker 5: was lying and conscious. And it's just a earthquake, a
- 22:58Speaker 5: shockwave in the family.
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- 25:38Speaker 11: Giselle has been confronted with videos showing her husband and
- 25:42Speaker 11: other men having sex with her whilst she is sleeping.
- 25:48Speaker 11: Investigators have to piece together how this could have happened.
- 25:55Speaker 3: What the police are able to establish from these videos
- 25:58Speaker 3: is that this has been going on for a period
- 26:00Speaker 3: of about ten years.
- 26:08Speaker 11: In twenty eleven, the Pelicos have been married for almost
- 26:12Speaker 11: forty years and are living in Paris. They are grandparents
- 26:19Speaker 11: living a happy, peaceful life.
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- 26:44Speaker 11: Under the pretense of caring for his wife, Dominique started
- 26:48Speaker 11: to drug her.
- 26:52Speaker 3: Pelico was using a drug called Semester, which is an
- 26:57Speaker 3: anti anxiety medication.
- 27:01Speaker 11: Temester, otherwise known as laurezapam, is used to treat anxiety
- 27:06Speaker 11: and sleeping problems. Dominique was using drugs he was prescribed
- 27:12Speaker 11: by his doctor.
- 27:14Speaker 5: He would crush the drug, usually eat three pills, and
- 27:18Speaker 5: he would mix it in the food. He often cooked
- 27:23Speaker 5: with a lot of garlic, a lot of onion, spices
- 27:27Speaker 5: full of taste and flagrances to hide the taste and
- 27:31Speaker 5: the color of the drug.
- 27:33Speaker 3: If he couldn't get it into her food at dinner,
- 27:36Speaker 3: he would bring a favorite ice cream.
- 27:42Speaker 11: High dosages of temesta can cause someone to lose consciousness.
- 27:49Speaker 1: He brought me my ice cream to bed, my favorite flavor, raspberry.
- 27:56Speaker 1: I told him, Oh lucky I am.
- 27:59Speaker 12: You're a love.
- 28:00Speaker 1: You really take care of me. I never felt my
- 28:09Speaker 1: heart race. I didn't feel anything. I must have gone
- 28:14Speaker 1: under very quickly.
- 28:18Speaker 11: The drugs made Giselle fall into a deep comatose like sleep.
- 28:25Speaker 5: If you gave her the temissa too early, she would
- 28:27Speaker 5: wake up too early, and so you had to really
- 28:29Speaker 5: time everything.
- 28:32Speaker 3: There are a couple of occasions which are documented on
- 28:35Speaker 3: video which show Gizelle waking up and she still had
- 28:40Speaker 3: no memory of this. Pelico was working out how to
- 28:46Speaker 3: keep her unconscious.
- 28:51Speaker 1: The next day, I was more tired than usual, but
- 28:55Speaker 1: I was walking a lot and thought it was that.
- 29:00Speaker 11: After drugging Giselle, Dominique raped her. This abuse continued for
- 29:07Speaker 11: two years. In twenty thirteen, the couple moved to Mazan. There,
- 29:27Speaker 11: Dominique escalated his crimes. He began inviting strangers to take part.
- 29:35Speaker 3: Pelico gave the men quite extensive instructions. He would tell
- 29:41Speaker 3: them if they were driving, park their car at a
- 29:43Speaker 3: nearby sports center so as not to arouse suspicion of
- 29:49Speaker 3: the neighbors. He would tell them that they weren't allowed
- 29:53Speaker 3: to wear after shave, they shouldn't smoke before they came
- 29:57Speaker 3: over to his home.
- 30:03Speaker 11: Dominique was precise and meticulous in his planning.
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- 30:27Speaker 4: He even asked them to warm their hands on the
- 30:30Speaker 4: radiator because cold hands might mean that Ghaselle would wake up.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Pelico was doing absolutely everything he could to make sure
- 30:40Speaker 3: that she didn't awake or have any suspicions in the
- 30:43Speaker 3: morning about what happened that night.
- 30:50Speaker 4: And I actually think he really enjoyed giving those men
- 30:53Speaker 4: that protocol. It's I'm in control of this person. I
- 30:58Speaker 4: own this person. If you want access to her, this
- 31:02Speaker 4: is what you need to do because I'm the gatekeeper.
- 31:16Speaker 12: It's quiet that they're whispering to not wake her up.
- 31:20Speaker 12: This is someone who is is literally in the deepest,
- 31:25Speaker 12: deepest sleep.
- 31:26Speaker 5: She's like a corpse basically, you know, it's a body.
- 31:30Speaker 5: Her joy is kind of you know, dropping on the
- 31:33Speaker 5: side and she's snoring. They touch her, do all these
- 31:41Speaker 5: horrible things to her, and she's not moving. She's obviously
- 31:45Speaker 5: passed out and she's not responding.
- 31:48Speaker 10: Often she's fully naked. Sometimes her clothes are pulled up
- 31:51Speaker 10: and her panties are pulled down. The men come up
- 31:59Speaker 10: behind her. They're often masturbating to get excited, and you
- 32:05Speaker 10: see men sticking their penises inside her vagina, her bomb
- 32:13Speaker 10: her mouth without ever talking to her.
- 32:22Speaker 1: These are scenes of barbarity. They regarded me like a
- 32:27Speaker 1: rag doll, like a garbage bag. I am lying motionless
- 32:33Speaker 1: on the bed being raped.
- 32:42Speaker 4: The particular fetish really comes through something called somnophilia, and
- 32:47Speaker 4: that is the fetish or the desire to have sex
- 32:51Speaker 4: with someone who is unmoving and unconscious. Sometimes it's quite
- 32:56Speaker 4: disturbingly called the sleeping beauty fetish.
- 33:00Speaker 5: This is a criminal act.
- 33:02Speaker 4: He has not requested consent from his own wife to
- 33:06Speaker 4: engage in this activity.
- 33:10Speaker 11: Police are only able to discover the extent of the
- 33:13Speaker 11: crimes because Dominique had been filming.
- 33:17Speaker 5: Dominique Pettico was really.
- 33:21Speaker 16: Influenced by pornography. He was thinking himself as a movie director.
- 33:29Speaker 10: He videos the sex scenes or the rape scenes. There's
- 33:34Speaker 10: videos that are on a tripod, but also often the
- 33:37Speaker 10: videos come in close.
- 33:39Speaker 12: You can hear her ex husband directing them a little bit.
- 33:42Speaker 10: He'll say like softly, softly, or he'll use some vulgar
- 33:47Speaker 10: terms about her, like stick it in the horror, or
- 33:50Speaker 10: you know, she's such a whrse.
- 33:51Speaker 12: She deserves this.
- 33:55Speaker 5: There were hundreds of files, photos and videos of the abuse.
- 33:59Speaker 5: Meticulously saved them and organize them and archived them.
- 34:05Speaker 14: He dekupated second's video the sec act.
- 34:11Speaker 13: Eksisel from Sando Saint Sexuurie.
- 34:16Speaker 16: He classified all the video the same way that you
- 34:20Speaker 16: can find them on pornography website.
- 34:23Speaker 5: This is someone who loves what they are doing so much.
- 34:27Speaker 4: But actually the planning, the organizing, the very very rich
- 34:31Speaker 4: fantasy world that someone like Dominiq would live in is
- 34:35Speaker 4: a big part of who he was.
- 34:37Speaker 5: He would have been thinking about this all of the time.
- 34:43Speaker 11: Over the years, Dominique started to look elsewhere, turning his
- 34:49Speaker 11: attention to his own daughter Caroline.
- 34:54Speaker 10: Among these thousands of photos, they were a number of
- 34:59Speaker 10: her in her father's catalog. A number of them had
- 35:03Speaker 10: been erased but were reconstituted by digital experts at the police.
- 35:10Speaker 16: Dominique Pelico shared a different pictures of her and her
- 35:14Speaker 16: mother online with really degrading comments about them.
- 35:20Speaker 10: There was also a photo montage of her and her
- 35:22Speaker 10: mother coming out of the bathroom together that was titled
- 35:27Speaker 10: my slut and her Daughter.
- 35:34Speaker 11: Photos of the Pelico's daughters in law were also.
- 35:37Speaker 14: Found defoto and de plan concerns.
- 35:53Speaker 13: Don't see yea, I will see la fish.
- 36:03Speaker 4: He was that opportunist. He was the constant, constant voyeur.
- 36:13Speaker 11: Dominique had kept this secret life hidden for almost a decade.
- 36:21Speaker 5: When they did psychiatrist evaluation, they didn't find any actual
- 36:26Speaker 5: mental illnesses or serious mental disorders. But he has two identities.
- 36:36Speaker 4: He needed to be able to compartmentalize, to show up
- 36:38Speaker 4: and act like a loving husband, to act a loving father,
- 36:42Speaker 4: so that really he could serve his greater purpose.
- 36:46Speaker 5: He was able to manipolte everyone around him, his children,
- 36:51Speaker 5: their friends, his wife for years without them having any
- 36:58Speaker 5: idea of what was going on.
- 37:01Speaker 11: For fifty years.
- 37:03Speaker 1: I leave it with a man who I never would
- 37:05Speaker 1: have imagined could be capable of this. For me, it
- 37:10Speaker 1: was someone I trusted entirely.
- 37:21Speaker 11: The deception continued as Gaselle's health deteriorated.
- 37:29Speaker 1: The signs were there, but I never knew how to
- 37:34Speaker 1: decode them.
- 37:36Speaker 5: He's seeing her getting really worried about her health. She's
- 37:41Speaker 5: losing weight. He goes with her to see the doctors.
- 37:44Speaker 5: He knows very well what's going on, and yet he
- 37:46Speaker 5: says nothing.
- 37:48Speaker 3: It's so deeply sinister, it's almost like a nightmare. The
- 37:54Speaker 3: thing she took as a sign of love during a
- 37:57Speaker 3: period of weakness in her life was actually how he
- 38:00Speaker 3: was able to perpetrate these crimes.
- 38:04Speaker 11: Dominique had masterminded a campaign of abuse and spun a
- 38:08Speaker 11: web of lies, but he hadn't acted alone.
- 38:15Speaker 8: But no more year of its affair, soizumor ve Don Domicil.
- 38:49Speaker 11: The police investigation into the videos reveals the scale of
- 38:53Speaker 11: the abuse against Giselle. They count nearly two hundred instances
- 38:59Speaker 11: of alleged straight carried out by Dominique, Pelico and seventy
- 39:04Speaker 11: two others. They are able to identify fifty of the men.
- 39:12Speaker 8: Sam a virtual Bellefortsparcom Spik Googmus improv Bosch as well
- 39:24Speaker 8: in the explosion.
- 39:28Speaker 3: It's a complete cross section of society. The ages range
- 39:33Speaker 3: from twenty six to seventy four.
- 39:37Speaker 13: Yeah, Pompierre, Pavois, jeiste.
- 39:45Speaker 3: A soldier, a nurse, a prison guard, a baker. You
- 39:48Speaker 3: have men who are unemployed, and they have actually been
- 39:52Speaker 3: described by Pelico's lawyer as an example of mister average.
- 40:00Speaker 11: Three of the defendants are from Mazarin itself, including a
- 40:05Speaker 11: neighbor of the Pelicos.
- 40:08Speaker 3: One of them Zell actually recognized when she was taken
- 40:12Speaker 3: to the police station.
- 40:15Speaker 1: I saw him now and then in the bakery, I
- 40:17Speaker 1: would say hello.
- 40:21Speaker 3: He had once visited their home, pretending that he was
- 40:24Speaker 3: going to see Dominique about his bike.
- 40:32Speaker 5: He enjoyed tackling in the hands of cyclist friends he
- 40:35Speaker 5: came out to the Pelico's house to see Shellbiliico in
- 40:38Speaker 5: the flesh before coming back to alleged sexually abuse her.
- 40:46Speaker 1: I never thought he'd come and orate me.
- 40:54Speaker 11: The neighbor denies the allegation.
- 41:03Speaker 5: So on other occasions he had told men who were
- 41:06Speaker 5: eager to see her before coming to the house to
- 41:09Speaker 5: meet them at the supermarket, or he'd send photos of
- 41:14Speaker 5: her or videos of her so they could see, you know,
- 41:17Speaker 5: what she looked like before before turning up.
- 41:21Speaker 1: The profile of a rapist is not someone who you
- 41:24Speaker 1: meet the car park late at night. A rapist can
- 41:28Speaker 1: also be in the family or among friends.
- 41:37Speaker 11: The men traveled to Mazan from up to forty miles away.
- 41:42Speaker 11: Dominique had found a method of recruitment.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Once the police started probing and they asked the question
- 41:49Speaker 3: how are these men being invited to Pelico's house, they
- 41:52Speaker 3: discovered that he's been using this website.
- 41:56Speaker 11: Dominique had signed up to a French chat room called Coco.
- 42:01Speaker 17: It was sort of advertised as a dating site of sorts,
- 42:06Speaker 17: where male users had their accounts hosted in blue, women
- 42:10Speaker 17: in pink, but couples were also in pink. From the outside,
- 42:14Speaker 17: it seemed very innocuous, but inside it was very different.
- 42:20Speaker 11: Behind its childlike interface, the chat room had a darker reputation.
- 42:30Speaker 7: The very famous website linked with a lot of criminal activities,
- 42:35Speaker 7: a sort of free forum gathering pimps, peder criminals, sex buyers,
- 42:43Speaker 7: just being able to display as sexual intimate content about women,
- 42:48Speaker 7: being able to chat about women in the most sexist,
- 42:53Speaker 7: deshumanizing language.
- 42:54Speaker 11: Two Coco allowed users to hide their real identity.
- 43:05Speaker 3: Dominique Pelico used a pseudonym and he found a chat
- 43:10Speaker 3: room called Without Her Knowledge.
- 43:14Speaker 17: This is a discussion forum that essentially was about image
- 43:19Speaker 17: based sexual abuse.
- 43:22Speaker 14: See lad Creti. Become a non Sudor.
- 43:28Speaker 3: Cupola and he starts posting pictures of his wife in
- 43:35Speaker 3: underwear on this site and says, me and my wife
- 43:39Speaker 3: are interested in threesomes, which would you like to be involved?
- 43:45Speaker 11: The conversation would continue in private, sometimes by text or
- 43:49Speaker 11: on Skype docree domur divis. These say that Dominique's messages
- 44:01Speaker 11: were clear. He invited men to rape Giselle whilst she
- 44:06Speaker 11: was unconscious.
- 44:08Speaker 4: But we know that from one of the adverts he
- 44:12Speaker 4: actually wrote I'm looking for someone to abuse my wife
- 44:15Speaker 4: asleep you're.
- 44:17Speaker 6: Like me, you like rape mode.
- 44:24Speaker 11: One of the defendants speaks on camera for the first time.
- 44:29Speaker 11: He says that he was tricked.
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- 45:44Speaker 1: I never even for a single second gave my consent
- 45:48Speaker 1: to mister Pelico or those other men.
- 45:53Speaker 11: The committee rape.
- 45:56Speaker 1: Not for a moment did these men say to themselves
- 46:00Speaker 1: is there something wrong?
- 46:09Speaker 4: I think Dominique really enjoyed what was essentially a really
- 46:12Speaker 4: sinister recruitment process finding those right people, and he was
- 46:16Speaker 4: able to use an online space as a very clever
- 46:19Speaker 4: filtering process to find those hearteners in crime.
- 46:24Speaker 3: One of the questions that has really stuck with me
- 46:26Speaker 3: while reporting on this trial is how many men Di
- 46:29Speaker 3: Pelico approach who said no, but didn't report it.
- 46:35Speaker 17: Being online, it somehow removes any form of countability. It
- 46:40Speaker 17: can desensitize people as well from the harms that they
- 46:44Speaker 17: are causing.
- 46:47Speaker 11: Dominique looked for men to help him take his crimes
- 46:50Speaker 11: a step further.
- 47:01Speaker 5: The only man who is not tried with rape on
- 47:04Speaker 5: Giselle Pilico is Machelle. He's also known sometimes as Dominique
- 47:10Speaker 5: Pelico's disciple.
- 47:12Speaker 11: Jean Pierre Marochelle and Dominique met on Coco.
- 47:19Speaker 3: Marochale, a retired lorry driver, had learned from Pelico how
- 47:24Speaker 3: to drug his own wife and in fact invited Dominique
- 47:27Speaker 3: Pelico over to his home to rape her and used
- 47:31Speaker 3: the same sedation technique that Pelico had been using on Gazelle.
- 47:35Speaker 5: Dominique Pilico went to Machelle's house and together they raped
- 47:40Speaker 5: his wife while she was unconscious.
- 47:45Speaker 11: At court, both men admit the drugging and raping of
- 47:49Speaker 11: Jean Pierre's wife over a five year period.
- 47:53Speaker 5: So I think he enjoyed that.
- 47:54Speaker 4: I think he liked this idea of teacher students, and
- 47:57Speaker 4: I think that's really what Dominique was trying to do,
- 47:59Speaker 4: was to find and other like minds who would engage
- 48:02Speaker 4: in the same activity.
- 48:09Speaker 11: The ten years of abuse came to an end when
- 48:12Speaker 11: Dominique was arrested in twenty Twenty Four years later, one
- 48:22Speaker 11: of the most shocking trials in French history begins.
- 48:26Speaker 5: It's a very sort of tense atmosphere.
- 48:29Speaker 10: Dominique Peligote has taken this position that you know, I
- 48:33Speaker 10: am guilty, I have admitted everything they all knew, and
- 48:38Speaker 10: I'm a rapist and they are rapists too.
- 48:41Speaker 5: If the accused denies raping or denies penetration, then the
- 48:48Speaker 5: court decides to show the videos.
- 49:06Speaker 11: Four years after Gazelle's world is turned upside down, the
- 49:10Speaker 11: rape trial of Dominique Pelico and fifty other defendants begins
- 49:15Speaker 11: in Avignon. Arriving at court to applause each day, Giselle
- 49:25Speaker 11: is greeted by members of the public and the world's media.
- 49:29Speaker 17: One of the reasons why this case has received so
- 49:32Speaker 17: much attention is the bravery of just in waiving her
- 49:35Speaker 17: right to anonymity, and in doing so, this has allowed
- 49:38Speaker 17: the world's media to be able to be there in
- 49:42Speaker 17: the courts to hear this trial and publicize it to
- 49:44Speaker 17: the rest of the world.
- 49:47Speaker 7: Usually, trials that concern sexist and sexual violence in France,
- 49:52Speaker 7: they are behind closed doors. When you open the door
- 49:56Speaker 7: to this kind of trial, you know that to relfe
- 49:59Speaker 7: for will be exposed. You know that all of your
- 50:02Speaker 7: life will be scrutinized. So that's a very brave thing
- 50:06Speaker 7: to do.
- 50:09Speaker 1: I wanted old women who are victims of rape to
- 50:13Speaker 1: be able to say, missus Pelico did it, We can
- 50:16Speaker 1: do it too.
- 50:18Speaker 11: When you are raped, there is shame, and it's not
- 50:21Speaker 11: for us to have shame.
- 50:23Speaker 13: It's for them, as sisters dat de spem brezi and
- 50:35Speaker 13: ires ncles.
- 50:43Speaker 3: The attention that Giselle has received as a result of
- 50:45Speaker 3: this case is like nothing she's ever experienced in her life.
- 50:50Speaker 3: She is a grandmother and a former logistics manager, and
- 50:55Speaker 3: suddenly she has come to represent for any woman who
- 50:58Speaker 3: has ever been sexually assaulted, this paragon of bravery.
- 51:04Speaker 9: At court, Giselle Pelico walks past just some of the
- 51:08Speaker 9: fifty men, some in hoods, accused of raping her while
- 51:12Speaker 9: she lay unconscious.
- 51:15Speaker 5: Priscianus Imois.
- 51:23Speaker 11: Thirty five of the fifty men deny raping Giselle.
- 51:28Speaker 17: One of the challenges in prosecuting this case is that
- 51:32Speaker 17: consent is not included within the legal definition of French
- 51:37Speaker 17: rape p law, there is a duty to prove that
- 51:41Speaker 17: the accused had the intention to actually commit rape.
- 51:47Speaker 3: Some of them have literally said, I didn't leave my
- 51:49Speaker 3: house that day with the intention of raping a woman,
- 51:52Speaker 3: and therefore I'm not a rapist. A couple of them
- 51:55Speaker 3: said that they first thought she was dead, but somehow
- 51:58Speaker 3: they managed to I concile that in the head and
- 52:02Speaker 3: go ahead with what they plan to do. Others really
- 52:05Speaker 3: feel like, actually they're the victim in this crime.
- 52:09Speaker 11: This defendant denies the allegation of rape.
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- 53:14Speaker 8: do not a victim. Dane Viola was a victim. Do
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- 53:27Speaker 5: M many will you know tell the courts that something
- 53:31Speaker 5: was asked. All I wanted to do was to leave
- 53:33Speaker 5: and it wasn't thinking and so they have all these arguments,
- 53:36Speaker 5: but no one could have calling the police.
- 53:39Speaker 11: This defendant claims that Giselle must have noticed signs of
- 53:43Speaker 11: the abuse.
- 53:47Speaker 8: Madame did dick the kai no take the shows stomachs.
- 54:01Speaker 8: Fam was.
- 54:07Speaker 5: Pasy victim blaming, and that's something that often happens in
- 54:12Speaker 5: cases of sexual abuse, as the victims is always questioned
- 54:17Speaker 5: and somehow that wants to blame. Lawyers of the defense
- 54:21Speaker 5: then asking her whether she's into thrisms or whether she's
- 54:25Speaker 5: into swinging. No matter how many photos and videos she
- 54:28Speaker 5: can show about what happened, they're still trying to blame
- 54:32Speaker 5: her for it.
- 54:34Speaker 7: The comments that we heard in the defense arguments were
- 54:39Speaker 7: archaic and shows also the height of misogyny and the
- 54:43Speaker 7: utmost contempt for women. Some defendants used arguments saying, well,
- 54:48Speaker 7: Dominique Pelico, the husband gave his consent as if the
- 54:52Speaker 7: wife was the ultimate property of her husband.
- 54:58Speaker 11: Whilst many consider did the defense arguments to be deeply misogynistic.
- 55:03Speaker 11: This defendant takes an opposing view.
- 55:08Speaker 8: Of feministminist Feminist.
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- 55:36Speaker 5: Even I can't recall another trial in France or anywhere
- 55:43Speaker 5: else in the world where a rape case that has
- 55:47Speaker 5: so much evidence and in that weird way, you know,
- 55:50Speaker 5: Pelico has the perfect trial because unlike so many other women,
- 55:56Speaker 5: she has proof of what has been done to her.
- 55:59Speaker 11: Oh the Gisel's insistence. The judge rules that the videos
- 56:04Speaker 11: be shown in court.
- 56:06Speaker 13: The premier video comus audience. Yea general ki keep plenty
- 56:17Speaker 13: viscue you.
- 56:29Speaker 10: When you sit in that courtroom and you see one
- 56:32Speaker 10: video after another of a woman snoring deeply loudly, it's
- 56:39Speaker 10: echoing in the courtroom. She was not a human being
- 56:43Speaker 10: in that moment, and I think that's really shaken a
- 56:47Speaker 10: lot of people as to.
- 56:51Speaker 12: How men see women.
- 56:57Speaker 14: Yea dement man, the mamma as jupans mama.
- 57:09Speaker 9: The rest of the courtroom fell completely silent as Giselle
- 57:13Speaker 9: Pelico said she wanted to address her ex husband directly.
- 57:20Speaker 1: So many times I said to myself, I'm lucky I
- 57:23Speaker 1: am to have you at my side. How could you
- 57:27Speaker 1: have betrayed me to this point? How could you have
- 57:30Speaker 1: brought these strangers into my bedroom. I am a woman
- 57:35Speaker 1: who is totally destroyed. I don't know if my whole
- 57:40Speaker 1: life will be enough to understand.
- 57:51Speaker 5: Their daughter, Caroline. She feels like she's the forgotten person
- 57:55Speaker 5: of this trial because the police found two photos of
- 57:59Speaker 5: her lying down on a bed, wearing unaware that she
- 58:03Speaker 5: doesn't recognize putting two and two together. She's convinced that
- 58:07Speaker 5: she was also drug un abused.
- 58:09Speaker 11: Dominique tells the court he only took the photos of
- 58:12Speaker 11: his daughter because he was being blackmailed, but offers no
- 58:16Speaker 11: further explanation. He denies ever drugging or touching her, but
- 58:22Speaker 11: Caroline is convinced he is lying.
- 58:26Speaker 12: She gets red.
- 58:27Speaker 10: She's frustrated. She screams at him, you know, like you're
- 58:31Speaker 10: a liar. You're going to die alone. She was hoping,
- 58:34Speaker 10: I think, for some sort of closure in this court case,
- 58:38Speaker 10: but there's what with her that's unresolved.
- 58:42Speaker 11: While investigating this case, police discover that Dominique's criminal activity
- 58:48Speaker 11: dates back further than initially thought.
- 58:55Speaker 3: What's emerged is that Dominique Pelico is potentially connected to
- 58:59Speaker 3: at least two other crimes. These are cold cases from
- 59:02Speaker 3: the nineties. In nineteen ninety nine, an attempted rape of
- 59:07Speaker 3: an estate agent in Paris, and because of a DNA match,
- 59:11Speaker 3: Pelico has admitted that he was involved in this crime.
- 59:15Speaker 3: There's another case which took place in nineteen ninety one,
- 59:19Speaker 3: and he is being accused of.
- 59:21Speaker 6: Being involved in the murder of a woman called Sophie arm.
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- 59:45Speaker 11: After a DNA match, Dominique Pelico has admitted to the
- 59:49Speaker 11: nineteen ninety nine attempted rape of an estate agent in Paris.
- 59:54Speaker 11: Investigators suspect he may have been responsible for a very
- 59:58Speaker 11: similar case in ninety ten ninety one, the rape and
- 1:00:02Speaker 11: murder of Sophine arm.
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- 1:00:48Speaker 12: Is your.
- 1:00:51Speaker 11: Police suspect. Dominique may be linked to at least five
- 1:00:55Speaker 11: further unsolved crimes.
- 1:01:00Speaker 7: Hlico is making history. She is leaving a legacy for
- 1:01:14Speaker 7: all of us women.
- 1:01:15Speaker 13: Who sex local and France and Mony.
- 1:01:27Speaker 7: This trial has had a huge impact in the French society.
- 1:01:32Speaker 7: A lot of protests have been taking place in solidarity
- 1:01:36Speaker 7: with Pelico.
- 1:01:38Speaker 14: She responsibility.
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: This trial is reckoning for France and the lower and consent,
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: but it's also allowing women to say, look, we're here
- 1:02:05Speaker 3: to be believed. You know, even if it's harassment on
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: the street, it's you know, being inappropriately touched in a club.
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: We're talking about this, We're saying it's happening, and Giselle
- 1:02:15Speaker 3: is standing up and saying, look, listen to us when
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: we say what's happening.
- 1:02:25Speaker 11: Yeah, they have being a one on head and farting.
- 1:02:27Speaker 5: You measured to the government to fight.
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: Against violence against women.
- 1:02:32Speaker 16: All the victim I believe bring out.
- 1:02:35Speaker 5: They're reciring directly to the GES medical make.
- 1:02:39Speaker 16: Ninety four percent of rape cases are dropped before they
- 1:02:43Speaker 16: go to trial. So it's meant that the hundreds and
- 1:02:47Speaker 16: thousands of women in France that had received no justice
- 1:02:51Speaker 16: for what happened to her. We're really hoping that this
- 1:02:54Speaker 16: could be a game changer in the fight against rape
- 1:02:57Speaker 16: culture and sexual violence in France.
- 1:03:07Speaker 11: For the local people of Mazan, this case has been
- 1:03:10Speaker 11: particularly poignant.
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- 1:03:42Speaker 11: Latika and Marion decided to organize a march in Mazan
- 1:03:46Speaker 11: in support of Giselle. Giselle was so touched by this
- 1:03:51Speaker 11: that she came to visit the association the next day.
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- 1:04:15Speaker 5: Accuses here.
- 1:04:25Speaker 3: There are many women that are hoping that the significance
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: of this case in France will be that the law changes,
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: so it isn't the case that lawyers need to prove
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: intent to rape a woman, and actually it becomes a
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: form of you need to assort positive consent.
- 1:04:43Speaker 11: After this historic trial, Giselle, her family and the world
- 1:04:48Speaker 11: await the verdict, which will be delivered in December. Dominique
- 1:04:53Speaker 11: has admitted guilt, but the time he serves and what
- 1:04:56Speaker 11: the judges decide for the other men is still to
- 1:04:59Speaker 11: be determined.
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: I don't think we'll ever forget the name Giselle Pelico
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: she has become this iconic figure of strength and somebody
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: who has really genuinely challenged rape myths that still held
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four.
- 1:05:16Speaker 7: I think what this case has the merit of showing
- 1:05:18Speaker 7: is that rapists are everywhere in our society, and it
- 1:05:24Speaker 7: kind of shies away from what was a common, widespread
- 1:05:29Speaker 7: idea that a rapist was some sort of monster that
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