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'I lived a lie', tearful witness tells French mass rape trial
Channel News Asia ^ | 24 Sep 2024

Posted on 09/26/2024 9:23:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A former partner of a co-defendant in a mass rape trial that has sparked horror and protests in France broke down in tears on Monday (Sep 23), telling the court she had "lived a lie" and might herself have been sexually assaulted. "I don't know if I was raped," Emilie O, told a criminal court in the southeastern French city of Avignon. "It's terrible, I will always have doubts."

Emilie O is a former partner of Hugues M, one among dozens of men accused of participating in the mass rape over a decade of Gisele Pelicot. Gisele's then-husband Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging her into unconsciousness and inviting strangers into their home to rape her.

The 71-year-old has been on trial since the start of the month along with 50 other men aged between 26 and 74, many of whom have denied the accusations.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: france; pelicot; rape

1 posted on 09/26/2024 9:23:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"I don't know if I was raped," Emilie O, told a criminal court in the southeastern French city of Avignon.

Is she referring to the fact that the definition of "rape" has been watered down, stretched, and expanded in many Western countries to almost include "looking wistfully at a girl" or "bumping into someone in a crowded subway?"

I don't know the particulars of this case - but the Story of O has holes in it, I don't doubt.

Regards,

2 posted on 09/27/2024 12:56:47 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

I am a victim not a criminal.


3 posted on 09/27/2024 3:22:30 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: alexander_busek
Is she referring to the fact that the definition of "rape" has been watered down,

No, she's wondering if she had been drugged and raped in the same manner as the other victims.

4 posted on 09/27/2024 3:40:33 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: alexander_busek
No. She actually does not know if her husband drugged her and let other men rape her. And if he did she has no idea how many times it happened.
5 posted on 09/27/2024 12:59:03 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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