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00:0020 years behind bars, Dominique Pellicot has accepted his fate.
00:06He will not be appealing the sentence, a decision revealed by his lawyer on Monday.
00:13He has decided not to appeal because he believes that it would be yet another ordeal with more
00:18conflict and more insinuations for his ex-wife Giselle Pellicot.
00:23He doesn't want to put her through that.
00:25He believes that this decision is more or less in line with the position he has taken
00:29throughout the hearing.
00:31Ms Pellicot never has been and never will be his opponent.
00:38Dominique Pellicot had saluted his ex-wife's courage during the nearly four-month-long
00:43trial.
00:45When other defendants accused her of complicity, he refuted those allegations.
00:50The decision not to appeal could also be a strategic one.
00:54If there were to be a second trial, Pellicot's sentence could well be increased to 30 years.
01:00This isn't the end of the case, however, as 17 defendants have chosen to appeal.
01:05Giselle Pellicot says she's ready to face them all over again.
01:10She was very aware of the fact that with 51 accused, a risk that a certain amount of them
01:17would decide to not accept the verdict was a very real risk.
01:21As a new trial is due to take place at the end of 2025, Dominique Pellicot could be called
01:27to the stand once more, this time as a witness.