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French judges plan to deliver hugely anticipated verdicts on Thursday (December 19, 2024) in a historic drugging-and-rape trial that has turned the victim, Gisèle Pelicot, into a feminist hero. Everything about the trial in the southern French city of Avignon has been exceptional, most of all Ms. Pelicot herself. She has been the epitome of…
Paris: Around late September, staff manning the phones at 39 19, France’s main anonymous hotline for women who are victims of violence, began noticing a new type of case. “The caller thinks she’s been drugged and potentially raped. She had suspicions a few months ago and all the information around the Mazan trial has helped…
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The daughter of the French man standing trial for enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife on Tuesday clashed with her father at his trial, shouting in the courtroom that he would “die in lies”. Since early September, Dominique Pelicot has been in the dock along with 49 other men for organising the…
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