Gisèle Pelicot
French court increases sentence to 10 years for man who raped Gisèle Pelicot in landmark case
PARIS (AP) — A French appeals court handed a stiffer 10-year sentence Thursday to the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged...
French appeals court revisits shocking Gisèle Pelicot rape case
NIMES, France (AP) — Less than a year after the landmark verdict in a drugging and rape trial that shook France last year and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a...
As Gisèle Pelicot faces one of her rapists in court, what has changed in France?
France's mass rape victim, Gisèle Pelicot, is returning to court on Monday to face one of her attackers, the only man who is appealing against last year's trial verdict...
Gisèle Pelicot receives France’s highest honour
Gisèle Pelicot, who became a symbol for women's rights in France during the rape trial against her ex-husband and dozens of accomplices, has received France's highest civic honour.Pelicot was...
Gisèle Pelicot given France’s highest award
Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who earned international recognition after publicly testifying at her mass-rape trial last year, has been given France's top honour.The 72-year-old was named knight of...
Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn’t want to know
It was supposed to be a defining, catalytic moment for French society.Horrific, but unmissable. Unignorable.The seaside town of Vannes, in southern Brittany, had carefully prepared a special venue and...
French rape victim Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, ‘A Hymn to Life,’ will be released next year
PARIS (AP) — Gisèle Pelicot, who became a symbol of the fight against sexual violence during the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France last year and turned her into a...
Gisèle Pelicot’s ex-husband, imprisoned for raping and drugging her, now caught up in other cases
NANTERRE, France (AP) — The convicted rapist who horrified France by drugging his then wife, Gisèle Pélicot, so other men could rape her is now caught up in other...
Five unanswered questions from the Pelicot trial
French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot walked out of a court in southern France for the last time on Thursday after her ex-husband was jailed for 20 years for drugging...
Macron thanks Gisèle Pelicot for courage, advocacy during rape trial
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Gisèle Pelicot's fight on Friday, a day after the conclusion of a landmark mass rape trial in Avignon that found her ex-husband...