US EditionGisele Pelicot back in French court for appeal trial 'ordeal'
- Gisele Pelicot returns to court next week in Nimes for an appeal trial involving her ex-husband Husamettin D., convicted of sexual assault.
- The appeal was triggered by Husamettin D.’s bid to overturn his nine-year prison sentence, while 16 other men abandoned their appeals.
- In the initial four-month trial in Avignon, fifty-one men including Dominique Pelicot and Husamettin D. faced convictions for rape and sexual assault.
- Antoine Camus, Pelicot’s lawyer, explained that her involvement aims to emphasize that all acts of rape are serious and that no instance should be considered minor.
- The appeal trial will likely last four days, with Husamettin D. maintaining his full appeal and Dominique Pelicot appearing as a witness for cross-examination.
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Gisèle returned this Monday to a court in France almost a year after he managed to convict 51 men for sexual violence, after one of them appealed the sentence in this case by defending that he "never" wanted to rape her. Pelicot, who became a world feminist icon, came to the Nimes court in applause and narrowed the hands of several of the people who approached him to express their support. "No more rapes," they prayed banners. With a pink jacket…
The man who appealed his sentence was sentenced to nine years in prison. He maintains that he never intended to rape her.
Gisèle Pelicot reappeared this Monday in public to face the appeal trial of the only convicted person who continues to deny having raped her while being anesthetized by the drugs given her by her then husband, Dominique Pelicot. She appeared escorted by the police, who opened a path among the dozens of people who were concentrating before the Court of Appeal of Nimes, in the south of France. Between applause, chants and ovations she climbed the …
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