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in the trial against her ex-husband and the 50 other men accused of raping her, last week it was finally time for Gisèle Pelicot to give her testimony.
Dominique Pelicot, 71, has admitted to repeatedly sedating and raping his ex-wife, saying that for nine years he contacted men through an online chatroom called ‘without her knowledge’, where he would recruit strangers to come to his home and abuse his unconscious wife. Papered on walls around the village of Avignon, where the trial is taking place, are messages of support for Gisèle. ‘Gisèle, women thank you’ reads one. ‘Shame must change sides’ says a mural by graffiti artist Maca Dessine, fast becoming the mantra associated with Gisèle’s trial and chanted by protesters outside court. Statements from her testimony are being shared online: ‘I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too.
‘The profile of a rapist is not someone met in a car park late at night,’ Gisèle said. ‘A rapist can also be in the family, among our friends. When I saw one of the accused on the stand last week, who came into my bedroom and house without consent... This man, who came to rape an unconscious, 57-year- old woman – I am also a mother and grandmother. I could have been his grandmother.’
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