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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pelicot Mass Rape Trial - Avignon

Gisele Pelicot, flanked by her companion Jean-Loup her lawyers Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau, arrives at the courthouse on December 4, 2024 in Avignon south of France. French prosecutors have demanded that Dominique Pelicot be jailed for 20 years, the maximum available sentence, for having drugged and raped his wife, Gisele, and invited at least 70 strangers to rape and abuse her over a decade. The demand came as the French government unveiled new measures to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Feminist activists demonstrate outside the court after the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Feminist activists sing outside the court after the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial are announced in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot with her grandson on the left addresses the press after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot with her grandson on the left and her lawyer Stephane Babonneau addresses the press after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

A collage made before the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot with her grandson on the left talks to the press after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Florian Pelicot, son of Gisele and Dominique Pelicot leaves the courtroom after the verdicts are announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot with her grandson on the left and her lawyer Stephane Babonneau addresses the press after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot with her grandson on the left and her lawyer Stephane Babonneau addresses the press after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

feminist activists demonstrate outside the court before the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter, seen with her brother David, arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

feminist activists demonstrate outside the court before the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter, seen with her brother David, arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter, seen with her brother David, arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

feminist activists demonstrate outside the court before the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter, seen with her brother David, arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelico, with her lawyer Antoine Camus on the right, arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot arrives with her lawyers at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot arrives surrounded by journalists at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Caroline Dorian, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot daughter, seen with her brother Florian, arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

feminist activists demonstrate outside the court before the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Security forces block access to the courtroom before the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Patrick Gontard, Jean-Pierre Maréchal's lawyer, announces to the press that he will not appeal after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot arrives at the judicial court in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

TV journalists are seen outside the court before the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Feminist activists demonstrate outside the court after the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Patrick Gontard, Jean-Pierre Maréchal's lawyer, announces to the press that he will not appeal after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

feminist activists demonstrate outside the court before the verdicts were announced in the Mazan rape trials in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisèle Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Roland Marmillot, lawyer for two co-defendants seen after the announcement of the verdicts in the Mazan rape trial in Avignon, France on December 19, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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France: Gisèle Pelicot Arrives At Courthouse For Mass Rape Trial 2

On Thursday, December 19, a judge in France found Gisèle Pelicot's former husband and 50 other men guilty. They admitted to drugging and raping her repeatedly over almost a decade. This video shows Gisèle arriving at the Avignon courthouse for the deliberations.

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France: Gisèle Pelicot Arrives At Courthouse For Mass Rape Trial

On Thursday, December 19, a judge in France found Gisèle Pelicot's former husband and 50 other men guilty. They admitted to drugging and raping her repeatedly over almost a decade. This video shows Gisèle arriving at the Avignon courthouse for the deliberations.

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

People gather outside the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024, waiting for the verdict in the trial of a man, with 50 others, accused of drugging his wife and orchestrating multiple rapes over nearly a decade. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele Pelicot in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

People gather outside the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024, waiting for the verdict in the trial of a man, with 50 others, accused of drugging his wife and orchestrating multiple rapes over nearly a decade. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele Pelicot in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

People gather outside the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024, waiting for the verdict in the trial of a man, with 50 others, accused of drugging his wife and orchestrating multiple rapes over nearly a decade. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele Pelicot in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

People gather outside the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024, waiting for the verdict in the trial of a man, with 50 others, accused of drugging his wife and orchestrating multiple rapes over nearly a decade. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele Pelicot in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press as she leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers he recruited online, in Avignon on December 19, 2024. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three-month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele into a feminist hero. His 50 co-defendants in the case were also convicted by the court, with no acquittals. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press as she leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers he recruited online, in Avignon on December 19, 2024. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three-month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele into a feminist hero. His 50 co-defendants in the case were also convicted by the court, with no acquittals. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Dominique Pelicot's lawyer Beatrice Zavarro speaks to media inside the courthouse after a verdict in the Pelicot case on December 19, 2024 in Avignon, France. Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, and 50 other men were convicted today on charges of raping her over a multiyear period, in encounters arranged by Mr. Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press as she leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers he recruited online, in Avignon on December 19, 2024. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three-month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele into a feminist hero. His 50 co-defendants in the case were also convicted by the court, with no acquittals. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM