Gisele Pelicot on Tuesday lambasted the cowardice of the dozens of men accused of abusing her during 10 years of mass rape organized by her husband and told the court hearing the trial France’s patriarchal society must change.
Dominique Pelicot, her husband, has admitted in court to drugging his wife, 71, and inviting strangers to their house to rape her while she was unconscious. Most of the 50 other men on trial have denied rape. She only learnt of her ordeal when police stumbled upon videos and pictures her husband recorded of the abuse he is accused of orchestrating. “For me this is the trial of cowardice, there is no other way to describe it,” Gisele Pelicot said, with many of the accused in the courtroom.
Many of the accused have told the court they did not realize they were raping her, did not intend to rape her or put all the blame on her husband, whom they said had manipulated them. “It is time for society to look at this macho, patriarchal society and change the way it looks at rape,” Gisele Pelicot told the court. Under French law, she could have asked for the trial to be kept behind closed doors.
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