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Gisèle Pelicot moved to tears by messages of support from women in powerful TV interview

French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot became visibly emotional as she watched video messages from women thanking her for her courage during a powerful Newsnight interview broadcast on Sunday (15 February).

The Independent UK

TV tonight: a remarkable interview with Gisèle Pelicot

Pelicot tells her story about finding justice in a Newsnight special. Plus: hit thriller Yellowjackets comes to ITV1. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

'I carried the shame long enough': Gisèle Pelicot on justice, survival and confronting her ex-husband

Madame Pelicot is the definition of courage and strength resilience, and she wants to inspire others to find their voice

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‘I was sacrificed on the altar of vice’: Gisele Pelicot describes impact of abuse in first televised interview

French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot has described the impact of the horrific abuse suffered at the hands of her former husband and the men he invited to sexually assault her, in her first televised interview.

The Independent UK

Gisèle Pelicot plans to meet ex-husband in prison for answers on other allegations

Pelicot says she wants truth from Dominique Pelicot over potential abuse of daughter and case of estate agent who was raped and murdered in 1991

The Guardian - UK

Queen honours Gisele Pelicot’s ‘extraordinary dignity and courage’

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The Independent UK

Gisele Pelicot ‘overwhelmed’ by personal letter of support from Queen

The Queen commended the rape survivor’s ‘extraordinary dignity and courage’

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‘I didn’t believe it was me in the photos’: Gisèle Pelicot recalls horror of learning her husband drugged her for mass rape

‘Perhaps shame fades all the more easily when you’re 70,’ says woman who embodies global campaign against violence towards women in new book

The Independent UK

Gisèle Pelicot calls on victims to ‘never have shame’ in her first TV interview

Pelicot says shame is ‘a double sentence’ and describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in police footage

The Guardian - UK

Gisèle Pelicot recounts moment she was told of husband’s rape crimes for first time

Gisèle Pelicot details the shocking discovery in her new book, ‘A Hymn to Life, Shame Has to Change Sides’

The Independent UK

Ashley James reveals she was raped at university and lived with 'shame' for years

The This Morning contributor, now 38, said she was 21 and studying at University of Nottingham when she was raped by a male friend while unconscious after a night out clubbing

Evening Standard

French parliament approves bill to end concept of 'marital duty' after consent concerns

The text must now be examined by the Senate under an accelerated procedure and if approved, it could be passed into law in the next few months.

Euronews

French MP recounts trauma in trial of ex-senator accused of drugging her with MDMA

Former senator Joël Guerriau, 68, has admitted serving lawmaker Sandrine Josso a drink spiked with MDMA but says it was an accident.

Euronews

What to know about a French ex-senator on trial for drugging a lawmaker to sexually assault her

A former French senator is on trial in Paris, accused of drugging a lawmaker to sexually assault her

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The Guardian - UK

Books to look out for in 2026 – nonfiction

Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham, essays by David Sedaris and Alan Bennett’s diaries are among the highlights of the year ahead

International Business Times UK

UK Man, Philip Young, Compared to French Abuser Who Drugged His Wife and Let Other Men Assault Her

Philip Young and five others face 60+ charges in a Swindon abuse case, drawing comparisons to France's Pelicot trial.

Radio France Internationale

Senior French civil servant accused of mass drinks spiking to humiliate women

More than 200 women in France allege they were drugged by a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Culture who gave them hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. The events occured between 2009 and 2018 but while the accused is under judicial control he is…

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'Every time there's a big rape case in France, it's like we're just discovering it'

When 25-year-old independent journalist Anna Margueritat covered the Pelicot mass rape trial in the south of France last year, she drew on her own experience as a victim of sexual violence – and in doing so, found a new strength.

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Euronews

'It prolongs the trauma': French woman allegedly drugged by official decries slow pace of justice

More than 240 women accuse Christian Nègre, a former senior official in the Culture Ministry, of secretly drugging them with diuretics during job interviews, then deliberately placing them in situations where they would be forced to urinate in public or on themselves.

Radio France Internationale

Convicted rapist Pelicot seeks publisher for books written behind bars

The jailed Frenchman at the centre of a notorious rape case is now seeking a publisher for the books and poems he has written from prison.

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant

In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here

Euronews

Paris protesters demand action as France faces surge in gender-based violence

Protesters highlighted gaps in France’s domestic violence response amid alarming new statistics.

Radio France Internationale

France changes criminal code to define rape as sex without consent

The French Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual act, making France the latest European country to enshrine the principle of consent in law.

The Independent UK

France to overhaul rape laws in wake of horrifying Gisèle Pelicot case

The bill defines rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act

The Guardian - UK

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sense of what happened?

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