It was only after the investigator pointed out a brown spot on her cheek that she realised that the photo was her and that her father had taken it without her knowing.
“There I discover myself and I understand that the man who was my father in whom I had total confidence, who I thought had integrity, who respected his daughter, who was proud of her, who had always encouraged her, I discover that in fact, my father photographed me without my knowledge, naked,” she said.
Ms Darian told the court she believes her father drugged her as well.
Pélicot’s daughters-in-law, Céline, 48 and Aurore, 37, also testified and spoke of feeling violated after discovering their father-in-law had secretly taken photos of them in the shower and their bathing suits without their consent.
Aurore also recalled an incident in 2020 in which her school-aged daughters asked their grandfather for a toy in the supermarket.
“He replied: ‘I’d be very happy to get it for you if you pose naked for me,” she said, adding that she always felt unease around her father-in-law.