Seventeen men convicted in the Pelicot mass rape trial have appealed the verdict, as confirmed by the prosecutor’s office in the French city of Avignon. The trial concluded earlier this month, with all 51 men on trial found guilty of rape or sexual assault.
The case revolved around Pelicot, who orchestrated for over 50 men to visit his house in the southern French village of Mazan and rape his then-wife Gisèle Pelicot, whom he habitually drugged with a sedative over nearly a decade.
