Gisèle Pelicot: Judge rules public can view French mass rape trial video evidence
Gisèle Pelicot: Judge rules public can view French mass rape trial video evidence
A previous ruling is reversed in the trial of a man accused of drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her.
A French judge has reversed a ruling in the trial of a man who is accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over a decade.
Lawyers for Gisèle Pelicot, 72, had earlier appealed against the judge's initial decision to only show video of the crimes to lawyers and the jury.
She has waived her right to anonymity in the trial, enabling the shocking details of the case to be heard in public.
Her lawyers argued the video should be seen to draw attention to the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. They hailed the latest ruling as a "victory"
Man this lady is brave as fuck
Those weak French, amirite?
"If these same hearings, through their publicity, help prevent other women from having to go through this, then she will find meaning in her suffering," one of Ms Pelicot's lawyers, Stéphane Babonneau, said.
What a badass. I have so much respect for the ways she’s been handling this. A real “fuck you” to her abusers. Repeatedly.
As long as that's Giséle's choice, that's a huge win and I wish her luck with her case. Thats beyond horrifying
Yeah, she waived her right to anonymity, not automatically. She chose to, and it's her lawyers arguing these videos should be seen by the world. She is willing to give up her privacy like that to show exactly what these monsters will do to defenseless people. Absolute badass.
I don't think I'd watch them out of respect, that's horrifying.
But man, I support the hell out of her throwing this evidence at her attackers full force and women should take strength out of her example.
I truly hope it makes it damn near impossible for any one of these men too get a job ever again.
Imagine if you both have a conviction of rape, and a video of you doing it on public record?
Christ.
Between this and Diddy, hard to believe how far some people take it. No different than serial killers imo.
Be honest: it's really really different magnitude.
Rape (especially such) is unbelievably horrible.
But death - it's the final point.Me and a friend had an ongoing debate whether rape or murder was worse. I argued that murder was worse than rape while he argued the opposite. It was mostly just the two of us being edgelords. But after reading about these two cases, I started to think that the serial rapists might be more depraved.