Seventeen men convicted in the Pelicot mass rape trial have appealed the verdict, according to the prosecutor’s office in the ...
The retired father of two, who also used to work as a truck driver, told the court he believed he was taking part in a consensual fantasy when he visited the Pelicot’s Mazan home 2020.
Pelicot was found guilty on December 19 of repeatedly drugging, raping, and facilitating the assault of his ex-wife, Gisèle ...
The Mazan affair has appalled France and turned prime plaintiff Gisèle Pelicot into a feminist icon. Since September, the trial has brought 51 men of all ages, walks of life and origins at the ...
It was here, over a nearly 10-year period, that he enlisted dozens of men to rape his wife at their home in the sleepy southern French village of Mazan, Pelicot told the court. From a firefighter ...
Pelicot stood trial alongside 50 other men, many of whom denied the allegations. However, the court in Avignon found 47 guilty of rape, two of attempted rape, and two of sexual assault. The men ...
A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his 20-year sentence for drugging and raping her and ...
It was in Mazan where Dominique Pelicot, by his own admission in court, invited dozens of men he recruited online over to his home to rape his wife Gisèle Pelicot after he drugged her.
Pelicot, who has become a hero to many in France ... who runs a therapy program for domestic violence and other trauma victims in Mazan, the village where the Pelicots lived, said, “Shame ...
Gisèle Pelicot told investigators that blackouts she suffered grew more frequent after they retired to Mazan in 2013, but that they stopped after her then-husband was taken into custody in 2020.
On Thursday, Dominique Pelicot was found guilty of recruiting dozens of men online to rape his wife at their family home in the southern French village of Mazan. Forty-nine of those men were found ...