Drugged, abused and filmed: In the Avignon rape trial yesterday, victim Gisèle Pelicot spoke out – and once again proved her strength.
Yesterday, Wednesday, was the 35th day of the trial. Gisèle Pelicot, 71, sat behind her lawyers at the side of the courtroom, her legs crossed and her back leaning against the wall. Opposite, at the other end of the room in a glass box: her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, 72. The main defendant in this case, the person with whom she spent fifty years together. An older man in jeans and a gray sweater, his arms crossed over his chest. He is said to have drugged Gisèle Pelicot and offered other men sex for almost ten years. He filmed the event and saved the videos on his computer.
Source: Stern
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