A woman whose courtroom testimony jolted France’s debate over sexual violence is now telling the story in her own words. Gisele Pelicot, who was repeatedly drugged and raped over roughly a decade in southern France in assaults orchestrated by her then-husband, has published a memoir about the Avignon trial that made her a symbol … Read more
The buttery yellow ramparts encircling the center of Avignon stretch 2.6 miles and are notched with arrow slits and gaps for dumping boiling water or cooking oil on attackers below. Over the centuries, the walls have protected popes and warded off sieges. They have been rebuilt by the 19th-century architect who refurbished Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, … Read more
Gisele Pelicot, ‘drugged by husband and raped by strangers’, walks out of French court amid thunderous applause Hindustan Times ‘I am a rapist just like all the others in this room,’ says Frenchman accused of mass rape of wife CNN ‘She didn’t deserve this’: 5 remarks by Dominique Pelicot who drugged wife, invited strangers to rape her Hindustan … Read more
The daughter of a French woman who was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted repeatedly by her husband and dozens of other men revealed her own fear of victimhood on Friday. Caroline Darian, 45, testified in an Avignon court against her father, Dominique Pélicot, 71, saying she believes she was also drugged and potentially raped like … Read more