Verdicts Due for 51 Men in Pelicot Mass Rape Trial That Shook France

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-19 00:57:31 | Updated at 2024-12-19 03:48:34 3 hours ago

Verdicts Due for 51 Men in Pelicot Mass Rape Trial That Shook France
BBC ^ | 12/19 | Paul Kirby

Posted on 12/18/2024 4:45:24 PM PST by nickcarraway

Judges in the French city of Avignon will hand down verdicts on 51 men on Thursday in a mass rape trial that has turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon. For almost a decade, Gisèle Pelicot was drugged by her ex-husband Dominique, who then invited dozens of men he had recruited online to have sex with her in her bed at home while she was unconscious and unaware.

It was her decision to waive her anonymity and throw this trial into the open - in her words, making "shame swap sides" from the victim to the rapist. Although he admits the charges against him, most of the other men on trial deny what they did was rape.

Prosecutors have asked for jail sentences ranging from four years to 20 years, the maximum sentence for a charge of aggravated rape. One of the defendants, who has admitted the charges, has said the trial was rushed and "botched".

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1 posted on 12/18/2024 4:45:24 PM PST by nickcarraway

To: nickcarraway

Does this kind of thing happen a lot in France?

2 posted on 12/18/2024 4:50:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

3 posted on 12/18/2024 4:50:21 PM PST by Gene Eric

To: nickcarraway

He was eventually caught because a security guard reported him to police for taking photographs under women’s skirts in a supermarket.

.............

and recruiting dozens of men to rape her.

remember that. perversion always recruits. It is not done in isolation. Homosexuality is a perversions also.

4 posted on 12/18/2024 4:55:12 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)

To: Gene Eric

5 posted on 12/18/2024 4:55:29 PM PST by x

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