Shocking rape trial highlights the systematic ... - Associated Press News
WEB2 days ago · Updated 9:07 PM PDT, September 20, 2024. AVIGNON, France (AP) — The trial of dozens of men accused of raping an unconscious woman whose husband repeatedly drugged her over the course of nearly a decade has highlighted the difficulties that sexual violence victims can face in France. Dominique Pelicot, 71, and his 50 …
Woman describes horror of learning husband drugged her so …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · A French woman who was raped by unknown men over 10 years after being drugged to sleep by her husband told a court of her horror at learning how she had been abused. Gisèle Pélicot, who is...
Gisèle Pelicot inspires hope for change as mass rape trial shocks France
WEB6 days ago · The trial “has become a symbol of the worst that male violence can do,” Anne-Cécile Mailfert, president of Fondation des Femmes, told NBC News. In a move rarely seen in France, Pelicot ...
The Rape Trial in France of 51 Men, Explained - The New York Times
WEB6 days ago · By Ségolène Le Stradic and Catherine Porter. Reporting from Paris. Sept. 18, 2024. Since the very beginning, the trial in the southern city of Avignon has riveted, and stunned, France. Dozens of ...
Gisele Pelicot recounts 'scenes of horror' as French trial is told ...
WEBSep 6, 2024 · Ms Pelicot gave evidence for 90 minutes, recounting how she had begun to believe she had Alzheimer's after years of strange memory lapses and other health problems.
'I am a rapist', admits husband in French mass rape trial
WEB6 days ago · Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over 10 years, has admitted to all the charges against him in his first ...
Women moved by defiant Gisèle Pelicot in France mass rape trial
WEBSep 14, 2024 · Nearly every day since 2 September, Gisèle Pelicot has been at the centre of a trial in which 51 men are accused of raping her, including the man she was married to for 50 years. As her story...
France rape trial: Woman testifies against husband, male suspects
WEBDominique Pelicot, now 71, and 50 other men are standing trial on charges of rape and face up to 20 years in prison. The trial started on Monday and is expected to run until December.
Woman in France Testifies Against Husband Accused of Bringing …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Gisèle Pelicot spoke of the horror of being told by the police that they had evidence her husband had drugged her for years and brought men into their home to join him in raping her.
Dominique Pelicot, on Trial in Mass Rape Case in France, Taken to ...
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Dominique Pelicot, 71, was due to testify on Tuesday over charges he invited dozens of men to his home to abuse his wife, Gisèle Pelicot. His condition was not immediately clear.
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