A husband who organized the mass rape of his wife for nearly a decade, knocking her unconscious with drugs and sharing pictures and video of the assaults, should receive the maximum 20-year prison sentence, a French prosecutor said Monday. Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted the charges in a trial that attracted worldwide attention and turned into an examination of the pervasiveness of sexual violence in France and beyond. “The maximum sentence is 20 years, which is a lot... but at the same time ... too little in view of the seriousness of the acts that were committed and repeated,” public prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the court. The prosecutors will over the next two days say what sentence they seek against each of them. Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told reporters it was not a surprise that prosecutors had sought the longest sentence possible.

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Persons: Dominique Pelicot, Laure Chabaud, Gisele Pelicot, Dominique Pelicot’s, Beatrice Zavarro Locations: France