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The change is the result of a cross-party, years-long debate which gained renewed urgency after last year's Pelicot rape trial, in which 50 men were found guilty of sexually assaulting or raping ... Gisèle Pelicot , 72, waived her legal right to anonymity and said she wanted the trial to be held publicly to alert the public to sexual abuse and drug-induced blackouts. All this happened in... Over a period of nine years, from July 2011 to October 2020, Dominique Pelicot , a man from Mazan in south-eastern France, repeatedly drugged and raped his wife, Gisèle Pelicot , and invited male strangers through the internet to rape her while she was unconscious. The first day Gisèle Pelicot walked up the steps of the courthouse in Avignon in September 2024, she was an anonymous retired grandmother. Within weeks, this diminutive 72-year-old - the victim ...
