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Pelicot trial: young vineyard worker proposed drugging and raping his own mother

Gisèle Pelicot walks outside the courthouse with her lawyer past a message on a wall which reads in French: ‘rape is rape’
Gisèle Pelicot walks outside the Avignon courthouse with one of her lawyers, past a message which reads ‘rape is rape’, 14 November 2024. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images

A young vineyard worker accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot on six occasions over four years when she had been drugged by her husband also proposed drugging and raping his own mother, a court has heard.

Charly A, 30, is one of 51 men on trial over the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, whose then husband, Dominique Pelicot, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious over a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence. Dominique Pelicot has admitted the charges, telling the court: “I am a rapist.”

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