51 men were convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged and incapacitated by her husband. Pelicot, a feminist icon after bravely allowing the public trial, aims to spark national conversation on rape and drug-facilitated abuse.
In a packed courtroom in Avignon, France , the head judge asked each of the dozens of men accused of raping Gisele Pelicot – while she was nearly comatose and at the invitation of her husband of 50 years – to stand briefly. ThenBy the time it was over, every one of the 51 accused men had been convicted, most of them for raping Pelicot in her own bedroom.
“I wanted, by opening the doors of this trial on September 2, that society would take up the debates that have been launched,” she said. “I never regretted my decision.” Lorraine Questiaux, a lawyer whose Paris practice focuses on violence against women, called the sentences “relatively lenient, given the gravity of the acts”.
Members of the feminist collective “Les Amazones Avignon” post a message of support for Gisele Pelicot reading “In France in 2024, 94 per cent of the rapist are acquitted” near the courthouse where the Mazan rape trial took place.The case drew so much attention in part because of the sheer number of men who had agreed to participate and because of their varied and ordinary profiles.
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