‘I did this for my grandchildren,’ Gisele Pelicot says as husband jailed for 20 years and 50 more men convicted in France’s mass-rape trial
I thought of my grandchildren, Gisele Pelicot says after French rape trial
Gisele Pelicot said after 51 men were all found guilty today in the drugging-and-rape trial that turned her into a feminist hero that the ordeal had been “very difficult” and expressed support for other victims of sexual violence.
“We share the same fight,” she said in her first words after the court in the southern French city of Avignon handed down prison sentences ranging from three to 20 years in the shocking case that stunned France and spurred a national reckoning about the blight of rape culture.
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