“Dominique Pelicot has taken the decision to not appeal the verdict,” Beatrice Zavarro told the AFP news agency on Monday. Pelicot was convicted and sentenced to 20 years behind bars on ...

Seventeen men convicted in the Pelicot mass rape trial have appealed the verdict, according to the prosecutor’s office in the French city of Avignon. All 51 men on trial were found guilty of ...

Dominique Pelicot, 72, drugged Gisèle with tranquilizers, rendering her unconscious while inviting at least 50 strangers to sexually assault her in their home and other locations. The case has ...

PARIS, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in jail by a French court for repeatedly drugging and raping his then-wife Gisele for almost a decade and inviting dozens of ...

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"Today he considers that the judicial page must be turned and that we must consider this chapter closed," Beatrice Zavarro, a lawyer for Dominique Pelicot, said on behalf of her client ...

Earlier this month Dominique Pelicot was convicted of drugging and raping his then wife, and soliciting 50 other men to do the same. Monday was the final day for defendants to file appeals ...

On Thursday, in a French court in the city of Avignon, 72-year-old Dominique Pelicot was convicted of an incomprehensible crime. He had drugged then raped his wife, Gisèle (also 72), for close to ...

Dominique Pelicot will not appeal against his 20-year sentence for orchestrating the mass rape of his former wife Gisèle Pelicot in a case that horrified France and turned a 72-year-old ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The security guard who caught Dominique Pelicot upskirting women at a supermarket, which led to the discovery of his abusive crimes, has recalled ...