Browsing: French mass rape trial

Almost all of Friday’s front pages lead with French rape victim Gisèle Pelicot after her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for drugging and raping her – and inviting 50 other men to rape her whilst she was unconscious, over ten years.

All the men were convicted on at least one charge.

Gisèle Pelicot’s case has garnered global attention, notably because she waived the right to anonymity and, along with the fact her ex-husband filmed the attacks over the decade, there was so much evidence to present publicly – something not common with rape cases.

Following the sentencing, Pelicot stood outside the court and told the public she did not regret going public with the case and told sex abuse survivors that they “share the same fight”.

Away from Pelicot, there is coverage of the UK economy as the papers react after the Bank of England’s downgrading of the economy’s growth outlook.

Lord Mandelson is expected to be named as the UK’s next ambassador to the US, whilst online many news sites report on a looming US government shutdown.

  As the moon rises over Avignon’s city walls, the night before the verdicts are announced, it is just high…

Judges in France are set to deliver verdicts today for 51 men involved in a mass rape trial that has stunned the nation. The case centres around Dominique Pelicot, 72, who is accused of drugging his ex-wife, Gisèle, raping her, and orchestrating a series of sexual assaults by dozens of men over nearly a decade.

Agnès Fichot will never forget that day in 1977 when, just a few years out of law school, she picked…

Since the start of the Pelicot mass rape trial, there has been talk of the defendants’ sexuality. In particular, the…

  Pelicot rape trial: Time for humility There were just a few more words left. The last ones from the…

Mass rape trial: 50 defendants make their final statements One last word each. After three and a half months, on…

Béatrice Zavarro was sworn in in 1996 and still wears the same dress, doing what she can to mend her…

Justice is often depicted as the blindfolded goddess Themis, a symbol of impartiality. For almost three months now, in the…

A lawyer for the chief defendant in a French mass rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, urged the court to recall his good side after prosecutors demanded lengthy jail terms for the dozens of suspects. The main defendant, Dominique Pelicot, has admitted enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife while she was drugged and unconscious.