US EditionFrench court increases sentence to 10 years for man who raped Gisèle Pelicot in landmark case
An appeals court in southern France increased Husamettin Dogan’s sentence to 10 years for raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious, amid a landmark sexual violence case.
- On Thursday, October 9, a French appeals court in Nîmes increased Husamettin Dogan's jail term to 10 years from nine after his failed appeal.
- Evidence shown in court indicates Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife for nearly a decade and filmed assaults in their Mazan home, including when Dogan visited on June 28, 2019 and assaulted her for more than three hours.
- Dogan told the court `I performed a sexual act, I never raped anyone`, while investigators recovered 107 photos and 14 videos, including footage of penetration of an inert Pelicot.
- The court ordered Dogan to serve 10 years and undergo mandatory treatment for five years, Jean-Marc Darrigade said Dogan will not appeal again, and Avignon civil proceedings are due in November.
- Lawmakers in France's National Assembly and Senate are pushing penal code reform to enshrine consent, with a final bill expected in coming months.
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vijesti.meA French court increased the prison sentence by a year for the only man who appealed against the original verdict.
He hoped to be acquitted, but the verdict fell like a coupet. Only accused of having appealed in the case of Mazan's collective rapes, Husamettin Dogan finally saw his sentence increased by the Court of Appeal of Nîmes. A setback in one of the most icy trials in recent years.
The French woman Gisèle Pelicot, who was raped for years by her husband and dozens of men with whom he contacted on the Internet, often went to the doctor with headaches, memory loss and other symptoms that never related to the violence she suffered. It is an extreme case: narcotized, not even she was aware of what she suffered. But many other victims of gender-based violence are and, as several studies indicate, go more to the doctor than the a…
Appeals court increases prison term for Gisele Pelicot rapist
A French appeals court has handed a stiffer 10-year sentence to the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious.Husamettin Dogan, a 44-year-old construction worker, had been sentenced to nine years in prison in the first drugging-and-rape trial last year that riveted France and turned Pelicot into a global icon against sexual violence.The appeals jury was composed of three judges as well…
The Court of Appeal sentenced a man to ten years in prison for raping Gisele Pelicot.
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