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In France, anger over sentences in mass rape trial despite Dominique Pelicot getting maximum
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Gisèle Pelicot was drugged by her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, and over 80 strangers he invited to their home over the course of a decade. Although Dominique Pelicot received the maximum 20-year sentence, critics and protesters are already raging that the other 50 men on trial got off too easy.
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Verdicts are due in the historic French rape trial that turned Gisèle Pelicot into a feminist hero
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In France, anger over sentences in mass rape trial despite Dominique Pelicot getting maximum
AVIGNON, France (AP) — French judges plan to deliver hugely anticipated verdicts this week in a historic drugging-and-rape trial that has turned the victim, Gisèle Pelicot, into a feminist hero. Everything about the trial in the southern French city of Avignon has been exceptional, most of all Pelic…
Gisèle Pelicot was drugged by her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, and over 80 strangers he invited to their home over the course of a decade. Although Dominique Pelicot received the maximum 20-year sentence, critics and protesters are already raging that the other 50 men on trial got off too easy.
Avignon, France (CNN) — A horrifying, monthslong mass rape and drugging trial concluded in France Thursday, with Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men all found
Gisèle Pelicot was drugged by her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, who orchestrated the rapes over the course of a decade. The trial has brought attention to issues from consent to chemical submission and rapes committed by “ordinary” people.
By Saskya Vandoorne, Kara Fox and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Avignon, France (CNN) — A horrifying, monthslong mass rape and drugging trial concluded in France Thursday, with Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men all found guilty of the rape or sexual assault of his former wife Gisèle Pelicot.
French court found all 51 defendants guilty in a drugging-and-rape case that horrified the world and transformed the victim, Gisele Pelicot, into stirring symbol of courage and resilience
Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty in a mass rape trial that has stunned France. He was handed a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for repeatedly raping, and enlisting strangers to abuse his then-wife Gisèle Pelicot over the course of a decade.
Pelicot’s ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, and all but one co-defendant were convicted of sexually assaulting her over a period of nearly a decade after he’d knocked her unconscious by drugging her food and drink.
Dominique Pelicot, who admitted to drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, for almost a decade and inviting dozens of strangers to join him, was convicted Thursday of aggravated rape and other charges.
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