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French court screens video evidence against men accused of mass rape in public trial

French court screens video evidence against men accused of mass rape in public trial

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Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old man, has been accused of drugging his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and enlisting strangers to rape her. The case, known as the "affaire Mazan", has raised questions about warped masculinity and patriarchal domination. Pelicot's home videos, which document the assaults on his ex-wife over a decade, have been presented as evidence in the trial. A total of 50 men are accused of raping Gisèle after she was drugged and left unconscious in the couple's bed. Gisèle, now 72, has waived her anonymity and spoken publicly about the abuse, shifting the focus from shame on the victim to the abuser.

Stephane Babonneau
1. But if these same hearings, through their publicity, help prevent other women from having to go through this, then she will find meaning in her suffering.
Paul-Roger Gontard
1. Today it's clear that Dominique Pelicot's position is to try to dilute his responsibility by dragging down 50 other men. [Gisèle] is the victim. The question is whether the others were complicit in it or were tricked into participating.
Joël Pelicot
1. To understand the origin of all this, we would have had to think of the unimaginable.
Pierre Peyronnet
1. We found it very difficult to get her on the phone, and most of the time it was [Dominique] who answered, explaining that Gisèle was asleep, even in the middle of the day.
2. We believed [Dominique Pelicot's] perverse argument that it was our fault that her health was deteriorating.

French court screens video evidence against men accused of mass rape in public trial

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