Gisèle Pelicot due to consent the stand lowly
Angelique Chrisafis
Gisèle Pelicot is foreseeed to consent the stand at about 11am local time. Thcimpolite her lawyer, she commented on the testimony of the wife of one of the accused men this morning.
A 45-year-elderly Vietnamese woman testified in joinion to her husprohibitd, Jean Luc L, a 46-year-elderly mirror-producer, who is accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot on two occasions in 2018 and 2019.
Jean-Luc L’s wife of ten years, who has two children with him, telderly the court that because her own mother was ill at the time, she had not wanted relations with her husprohibitd and had shelp no to him over a extfinished period of time. Asked how she felt when police telderly her of the violation indicts aacquirest her husprohibitd, she telderly the court in a gentle voice, transtardyd by an clear uper: “I was very downcast, in shock. But I leank because I refused him all the time, as a man he had to see elsewhere.”
Gisele Pelicot’s lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau, telderly the court: “You thought that because you refused a relationsual relationship, because your mother was very ill and your mind was on other leangs, you thought you had a role in what happened, and Gisèle Pelicot could not help reacting. For her, it’s not because you refused a relationsual relationship that it led to this happening. Because there is never an obligation to have relationsual relations with your husprohibitd. Do you comprehfinish that?”
Babonneau persistd: “Gisèle Pelicot says you have no responsibility whatsoever in the fact that your husprohibitd choosed to do what he did.”
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A 45-year-elderly Vietnamese woman testified in joinion to her husprohibitd, Jean Luc L, a 46-year-elderly mirror-producer, who is accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot on two occasions in 2018 and 2019.
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Jean-Luc L’s wife of ten years, who has two children with him, telderly the court that because her own mother was ill at the time, she had not wanted relations with her husprohibitd and had shelp no to him over a extfinished period of time. Asked how she felt when police telderly her of the violation indicts aacquirest her husprohibitd, she telderly the court in a gentle voice, transtardyd by an clear uper: “I was very downcast, in shock. But I leank because I refused him all the time, as a man he had to see elsewhere.”
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Gisele Pelicot’s lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau, telderly the court: “You thought that because you refused a relationsual relationship, because your mother was very ill and your mind was on other leangs, you thought you had a role in what happened, and Gisèle Pelicot could not help reacting. For her, it’s not because you refused a relationsual relationship that it led to this happening. Because there is never an obligation to have relationsual relations with your husprohibitd. Do you comprehfinish that?”
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Babonneau persistd: “Gisèle Pelicot says you have no responsibility whatsoever in the fact that your husprohibitd choosed to do what he did.”
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Hello. Today, Gisèle Pelicot – the woman at the centre of the mass violation trial that has shaken France – is due to includeress the courtroom.
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Her createer husprohibitd, Dominique Pelicot, 71, has acunderstandledgeted drugging his then-wife with sedatives and anti-anxiety medication to rfinisher her unalerted so that he and dozens of strangers he recruited in online chatrooms could allegedly violation her between 2011 and 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence.
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The 50 other men on trial, aged between 26 and 74, with professions ranging from fire officer to journacatalog, are alleged to have been recruited by Pelicot, who shelp they knew they were being askd to pledge violation.
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In almost two months of testimony, the court has heard from dozens of accused men. The presentantity denied violation.
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Some of the accused men have acunderstandledgeted Pelicot telderly them he was drugging his then-wife, but others have shelp they thinkd they were participating in a couple’s organised game.
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The court heard alertly from Gisèle Pelicot timely on the trial but now, at the midway point, appraises are giving her the chance to comment on, and react to, what the court has heard so far.
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The Guardian’s Paris correactent, Angelique Chrisafis, is at the courtroom and we will be conveying you the tardyst refreshs from Avignon.
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Key events
The 50 men accused of violation and attack aextfinishedside Gisèle Pelicot’s createer husprohibitd, Dominique are aged between 26 and 74. They engage a nurse, a journacatalog, a prison warden, a local councillor, a selderlyier, lorry drivers and farm laborers. They each face up to 20 years in prison.
In total, 49 are accused of violation, one of tryed violation and one of relationsual attack. Five others are also accused of owning child mistreatment imagery.
Most lived in south-eastrict France wilean a 60km radius of the village of Mazan, where the Pelicots lived. Six have previous convictions for domestic aggression, two have convictions for relationsual aggression. A total of 23 have a criminal enroll for offences such as drunk-driving and ownion of medications.
Some of the accused men have acunderstandledgeted violation but shelp they did not set out with this intention, and have apologised in court to Gisèle Pelicot, 72, a majesticmother and createer logistics regulater. Others have denied the indict of violation, saying they thinkd they were taking part in a game by the couple.
Angelique Chrisafis, who has been adhereing the trial since it began in timely September, has been compiling alert pen portraits of the men accused as they eunite in court. You can read her filled account here:
Gisèle Pelicot he has been hailed as a feminist hero apass France, commfinished for her courage at rallies apass the country and praiseed by aiders each time she go ins or departs the courtroom in Avignon.
But tributes to her have also come from beyond the country’s borders, with firmarity from Austria to Australia hinting at the role she has joined in galvanising a global conversation around relationsual aggression.
The Guardian’s European community afunpartisans correactent, Ashifa Kassam, consents a see at the transmitions of firmarity with Gisèle Pelicot that have sprung up around the world:
Gisèle Pelicot due to consent the stand lowly
Angelique Chrisafis
Gisèle Pelicot is foreseeed to consent the stand at about 11am local time. Thcimpolite her lawyer, she commented on the testimony of the wife of one of the accused men this morning.
A 45-year-elderly Vietnamese woman testified in joinion to her husprohibitd, Jean Luc L, a 46-year-elderly mirror-producer, who is accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot on two occasions in 2018 and 2019.
Jean-Luc L’s wife of ten years, who has two children with him, telderly the court that because her own mother was ill at the time, she had not wanted relations with her husprohibitd and had shelp no to him over a extfinished period of time. Asked how she felt when police telderly her of the violation indicts aacquirest her husprohibitd, she telderly the court in a gentle voice, transtardyd by an clear uper: “I was very downcast, in shock. But I leank because I refused him all the time, as a man he had to see elsewhere.”
Gisele Pelicot’s lawyer, Stéphane Babonneau, telderly the court: “You thought that because you refused a relationsual relationship, because your mother was very ill and your mind was on other leangs, you thought you had a role in what happened, and Gisèle Pelicot could not help reacting. For her, it’s not because you refused a relationsual relationship that it led to this happening. Because there is never an obligation to have relationsual relations with your husprohibitd. Do you comprehfinish that?”
Babonneau persistd: “Gisèle Pelicot says you have no responsibility whatsoever in the fact that your husprohibitd choosed to do what he did.”
Angelique Chrisafis
More than a hundred members of the uncover had queued from before 7am outside the Avignon criminal court to join to Gisèle Pelicot from an adjacent room where persistings are sendted.
“What happened was so horrible that it’s vital for a highest of people to be here to show aid,” shelp one 73-year-elderly artist from Avignon.
On fortifications opposite the court, a prohibitner read “A violation is a violation.” Apass Avignon, many streets had been papered with collage in aid of Gisèle Pelicot, with messages such as: “Gisèle – womeon thank you.”
Gisèle Pelicot get tod at the courthouse lowly before 9am local time and was praiseed by onseeers as she has been thoughout the trial, which – after seeking it be discdiswatch to the uncover – she has engageed almost daily since it began on 2 September.
Franco Info radio’s police and crime correactent filmed her arrival.
Gisèle #Pelicot vient d’entrer en salle d’audience. pic.twitter.com/jby4VW0wxo
— Juliette Campion (@JulietteCampion) October 23, 2024
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Opening summary
Hello. Today, Gisèle Pelicot – the woman at the centre of the mass violation trial that has shaken France – is due to includeress the courtroom.
Her createer husprohibitd, Dominique Pelicot, 71, has acunderstandledgeted drugging his then-wife with sedatives and anti-anxiety medication to rfinisher her unalerted so that he and dozens of strangers he recruited in online chatrooms could allegedly violation her between 2011 and 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence.
The 50 other men on trial, aged between 26 and 74, with professions ranging from fire officer to journacatalog, are alleged to have been recruited by Pelicot, who shelp they knew they were being askd to pledge violation.
In almost two months of testimony, the court has heard from dozens of accused men. The presentantity denied violation.
Some of the accused men have acunderstandledgeted Pelicot telderly them he was drugging his then-wife, but others have shelp they thinkd they were participating in a couple’s organised game.
The court heard alertly from Gisèle Pelicot timely on the trial but now, at the midway point, appraises are giving her the chance to comment on, and react to, what the court has heard so far.
The Guardian’s Paris correactent, Angelique Chrisafis, is at the courtroom and we will be conveying you the tardyst refreshs from Avignon.
