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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod McGuirk

Gisele Pelicot's Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine wore an Aboriginal scarf

France Rape Trial Australia - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A group of Gisele Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art.

The 71-year-old who refused to remain an anonymous victim wore the silk scarf several times during the court process in Avignon, including when 51 men were convicted and sentenced to prison for molesting her after she had been drugged by her former husband, Dominique Pelicot.

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