"From 2011 to 2020 her husband, Dominque Pelicot, was drugging her and using a chatroom called "à son insu" ("without her knowledge") to invite local men to rape her while she was unconscious. He might never have been found out had he not been caught taking pictures up women's skirts in a supermarket."
"Only Dominique acknowledged that he was a rapist; the other 50 men on trial treated the proceedings as a joke and insisted they had done nothing wrong: It was just kinky sex; she was only pretending to be asleep; and anyway the husband gave permission, so how could it be rape?"
"Gisèle Pelicot revealed her identity and chose an open trial so that the world could see what had happened to her and by whom."
Gisèle Pelicot discovered that her husband Dominique had drugged her for nearly a decade and organized gang rapes through an online chatroom, inviting local men to assault her while unconscious. He was discovered only after being caught photographing women in a supermarket. Gisèle chose a public trial, revealing her identity to expose the perpetrators. While Dominique received a 20-year sentence, the other 50 accused men largely denied wrongdoing, claiming consensual activity or citing the husband's permission. Some partners of the accused blamed themselves for not satisfying their husbands. Approximately 20 men in videos remain unidentified. This case raises critical questions about criminal justice responses to sexual violence.
Read at The Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]