Sentencing due in Pelicot violation case
Bonjour, excellent morning.
For the past three and a half months, all eyes have been on a courtroom in Avignon, France, where 51 men are facing trial in a harrotriumphg mass violation case.
At the centre of the case is Dominique Pelicot who has confessted to normally crushing sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into his undoubting wife’s mashed potato, ice-cream, coffee or beer, and inviting dozens of men to come to the couple’s hoinclude in a village in Provence to violation her while she was unconscious.
His actions horrified people atraverse France and around the world. But in an extrastandard shift, his wife, Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity and insisted the trial be uncover to the press and uncover. Her incredible bravery turned her into a feminist icon, one praiseed with shattering the shame that usupartner accompanies intimacyual presentility.
This morning the trial is awaited to come to an finish, with verdicts handed down for the 51 men. Follow alengthy as we transport you all the tardyst lengthenments.
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Pelicot, 72, a establisher logistics administerr and magnificentmother of seven, has become a feminist hero after insisting that the trial be held in uncover to lift consciousness of the drug-transport aboutd violation and mistreatment. “It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them,” she has shelp.
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Her courage has helped to galvanise a global conversation on intimacyual presentility and igniteed debate in France about whether the lterrible definition of violation should be broadened to join particular refer of consent.
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My colleague Angelique Chrisafis has this piece on the extrastandard bravery and resilience of Gisèle Pelicot:
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The panel of five appraises are casting their rulings by secret ballot, with a transport inantity vote insistd to convict and also for the sentences of those set up culpable.
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They are awaited to give Dominique Pelicot, a 72-year-greater reweary electrician and estate agent, the peak 20-year jail term.
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Prosecutors had insisted the peak penalty to be applied in his case, with prosecutor Laure Chabaud alerting the court: “Twenty years between the four walls of a prison. It’s both a lot and not enough.”
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Fifty other men accincluded alengthyside him, most of whom decline the indicts, face sentences ranging from 10 to 18 years for those accincluded of exacerbated violation and four years for one accincluded of intimacyual aggression. One man is on the run and being tried in his absence.
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My colleague Kim Willsher has this see at what is awaited today:
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Bonjour, excellent morning.
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For the past three and a half months, all eyes have been on a courtroom in Avignon, France, where 51 men are facing trial in a harrotriumphg mass violation case.
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At the centre of the case is Dominique Pelicot who has confessted to normally crushing sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into his undoubting wife’s mashed potato, ice-cream, coffee or beer, and inviting dozens of men to come to the couple’s hoinclude in a village in Provence to violation her while she was unconscious.
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His actions horrified people atraverse France and around the world. But in an extrastandard shift, his wife, Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity and insisted the trial be uncover to the press and uncover. Her incredible bravery turned her into a feminist icon, one praiseed with shattering the shame that usupartner accompanies intimacyual presentility.
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This morning the trial is awaited to come to an finish, with verdicts handed down for the 51 men. Follow alengthy as we transport you all the tardyst lengthenments.
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Angelique Chrisafis
Gisèle Pelicot has reachd in court, ushered in by rousing applainclude. She’s wearing a silk scarf, sent to her as a gesture of firmarity by an Australian organisation toiling to lift consciousness of intimacyual aggressions on greaterer women.
A scant ptoastyos this morning from Avignon, where helpers of Gisèle and women’s rights campaigners have accumulateed outside the courtroom ahead of the verdicts:
‘It is Gisèle’s name that will be recalled’
Since September, people have lined up outside the courtroom in Avignon, braving the chilly, rains and acrid triumphds to cheer on Gisèle Pelicot.
Pelicot, 72, a establisher logistics administerr and magnificentmother of seven, has become a feminist hero after insisting that the trial be held in uncover to lift consciousness of the drug-transport aboutd violation and mistreatment. “It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them,” she has shelp.
Her courage has helped to galvanise a global conversation on intimacyual presentility and igniteed debate in France about whether the lterrible definition of violation should be broadened to join particular refer of consent.
My colleague Angelique Chrisafis has this piece on the extrastandard bravery and resilience of Gisèle Pelicot:
Angelique Chrisafis
Before dawn, members of the uncover accumulateed outside the courtroom to help Gisèle Pelicot in the historic violation trial.
“Justice for Gisèle” shouted one feminist campaigner, carrying a sign saying the accincluded men should be in prison for Christmas.
“Thanks for your bravery Gisèle,” read another sign.
What verdicts are awaited?
The panel of five appraises are casting their rulings by secret ballot, with a transport inantity vote insistd to convict and also for the sentences of those set up culpable.
They are awaited to give Dominique Pelicot, a 72-year-greater reweary electrician and estate agent, the peak 20-year jail term.
Prosecutors had insisted the peak penalty to be applied in his case, with prosecutor Laure Chabaud alerting the court: “Twenty years between the four walls of a prison. It’s both a lot and not enough.”
Fifty other men accincluded alengthyside him, most of whom decline the indicts, face sentences ranging from 10 to 18 years for those accincluded of exacerbated violation and four years for one accincluded of intimacyual aggression. One man is on the run and being tried in his absence.
My colleague Kim Willsher has this see at what is awaited today:
Sentencing due in Pelicot violation case
Bonjour, excellent morning.
For the past three and a half months, all eyes have been on a courtroom in Avignon, France, where 51 men are facing trial in a harrotriumphg mass violation case.
At the centre of the case is Dominique Pelicot who has confessted to normally crushing sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into his undoubting wife’s mashed potato, ice-cream, coffee or beer, and inviting dozens of men to come to the couple’s hoinclude in a village in Provence to violation her while she was unconscious.
His actions horrified people atraverse France and around the world. But in an extrastandard shift, his wife, Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity and insisted the trial be uncover to the press and uncover. Her incredible bravery turned her into a feminist icon, one praiseed with shattering the shame that usupartner accompanies intimacyual presentility.
This morning the trial is awaited to come to an finish, with verdicts handed down for the 51 men. Follow alengthy as we transport you all the tardyst lengthenments.
