At the midway point of the mass rape trial that has shaken France, the woman at its centre, Gisèle Pelicot, 72, has taken to the stand at the court’s invitation to comment on and respond to the evidence and testimony the judges have heard so far.
Pelicot’s former husband, Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted drugging his then-wife to render her unconscious in order that he and dozens of strangers he found in online chatrooms could allegedly rape her, between 2011 and 2020.
