The former Quebec producer Gilbert Rozon, tried for rape since October 13, 2020, in Montreal.

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The former Quebec producer Gilbert Rozon, tried for rape since Tuesday in Montreal, ended his testimony on Thursday by reaffirming that it was the complainant who had "imposed" a sexual relationship on him and not the other way around as she did. asserts.

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once again contradicts the complainant this Thursday morning.

According to him, it was she who "forced" him to have sex in a residence north of Montreal in 1980 by coming to join him in his bed.

He admitted that he had been "consenting".

Gilbert Rozon, 65, offered a detailed account of the facts during his cross-examination on Thursday.

After a night out at a disco, he says he went with the complainant to a house where they kissed and cuddled around a fire, but assures that he did not go any further as soon as she told him " no".

“I did not attack her in any way.

When she contracted her legs, I stopped immediately, ”he said, saying that he immediately went to bed.

"If I had been an abuser, she would not have slept at my house that night"

This is not true, he replied when the prosecutor suggested to him that he had gone to bed hoping that she would come and find him and that it was ultimately he who went to her.

He repeated that he woke up in his bed when the complainant sat "in a trance" on him to make love to him.

“It was something that was forced on me.

I accepted and I was perfectly consenting, he insisted.

Look, if I had been an abuser, she surely wouldn't have slept at my house that night.

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The alleged victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, offered a diametrically opposed version of the facts.

She maintains that Gilbert Rozon first tried to kiss her before raping her a few hours later while she was sleeping alone in a bedroom.

They both knew each other.

The complainant and the accused were respectively 20 and 25 years old at the time of the events.

Following his testimony, the trial was suspended until November 6, when the closing arguments will take place.

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