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Gisele Pelicot on Tuesday lambasted the cowardice of the dozens of men accused of abusing her during 10 years of mass rape organized by her husband and told the court hearing the trial France’s patriarchal society must change. Most of the 50 other men on trial have denied rape. “For me this is the trial of cowardice, there is no other way to describe it,” Gisele Pelicot said, with many of the accused in the courtroom. “It is time for society to look at this macho, patriarchal society and change the way it looks at rape,” Gisele Pelicot told the court. “Rape is rape,” she said on Tuesday.
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Reuters —Gisele Pelicot on Tuesday lambasted the cowardice of the dozens of men accused of abusing her during 10 years of mass rape organized by her husband and told the court hearing the trial France’s patriarchal society must change. Most of the 50 other men on trial have denied rape. “For me this is the trial of cowardice, there is no other way to describe it,” Gisele Pelicot said, with many of the accused in the courtroom. Video recorded by her husband and shown in court over the past weeks have repeatedly featured Gisele Pelicot motionless, sometimes snoring, while some of the accused abused her. “It is time for society to look at this macho, patriarchal society and change the way it looks at rape,” Gisele Pelicot told the court.
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Reuters —Gisele Pelicot, the 72-year-old victim of mass rape whose ordeal has shocked the world, told a trial in southern France on Wednesday that she was determined that making her case public should help other women and change society. Fifty other men also stand trial, accused of raping her. Gisele Pelicot, her voice often shaking with emotion, told the court she was destroyed by what happened to her. Protests have been organized across France to show support for Gisele Pelicot, with many women expressing admiration for her courage. Only a few have admitted to raping Gisele Pelicot.
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“I have felt humiliated," an outraged Gisèle Pelicot said of the arguments alleging she was an alcoholic or being her ex-husband's co-conspirator. Are they degenerates?” Gisèle Pelicot told the court. She testified earlier this month that her world collapsed when police uncovered the years of alleged abuse, recorded by Dominique Pelicot in a cache of more than 20,000 images and videos. A rendering of Dominique Pelicot, inside the glass box in the Avignon courthouse built to hold some of the defendants. Many of the defendants deny raping Pelicot.
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“I am a rapist, like the others in this room,” Pelicot told the court Tuesday, as his long-awaited testimony began. In a move rarely seen in France, Pelicot refused to remain anonymous. While many are charged with raping Gisèle Pelicot one time, others are charged with as many as six assaults. Indeed, Dominique Pelicot had been arrested before, nabbed in a supermarket outside Paris in 2010, using a pen-camera to film under women’s skirts. Dominique Pelicot obtained hundreds of prescription drugs from his own doctor, who declined to speak to police.
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