Posted on 12/18/2024 4:45:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
Judges in the French city of Avignon will hand down verdicts on 51 men on Thursday in a mass rape trial that has turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon. For almost a decade, Gisèle Pelicot was drugged by her ex-husband Dominique, who then invited dozens of men he had recruited online to have sex with her in her bed at home while she was unconscious and unaware.
It was her decision to waive her anonymity and throw this trial into the open - in her words, making "shame swap sides" from the victim to the rapist. Although he admits the charges against him, most of the other men on trial deny what they did was rape.
Prosecutors have asked for jail sentences ranging from four years to 20 years, the maximum sentence for a charge of aggravated rape. One of the defendants, who has admitted the charges, has said the trial was rushed and "botched".
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Does this kind of thing happen a lot in France?
makes Lily look demure
He was eventually caught because a security guard reported him to police for taking photographs under women’s skirts in a supermarket.
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and recruiting dozens of men to rape her.
Um ... no.
“Does this kind of thing happen a lot in France?”
Likely a lot more than the media is allowed to report on it, due to facing charges of Racism.
As a photographer, I’ve never understood that. If you take a photo upwards, in an enclosed area, it won’t turn out, because there is no light. I expect using a flash would be too obvious?
Who is that?
That’s the truth.
Obviously.
I just can’t imagine getting a decent picture under those conditions.
Shocked ... it’s not muslims.
would rather not provide any details, but you can easily find out by searching Lily 100 — quite disturbing
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